Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant.

Science is not a thing. It's a verb. It's a way of thinking about things. It's a way of looking for natural explanations for all phenomena.

The recent medical controversy over whether vaccinations cause autism reveals a habit of human cognition — thinking anecdotally comes naturally, whereas thinking scientifically does not.

Smart people believe weird things because they are skilled at defending beliefs they arrived at for non-smart reasons.

I’m a skeptic not because I do not want to believe, but because I want to know. How can we tell the difference between what we would like to be true and what is actually true? The answer is science.

Religious faith depends on a host of social, psychological and emotional factors that have little or nothing to do with probabilities, evidence and logic.

Humans are, by nature, pattern-seeking, storytelling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns whether they exist or not.

But the power of science lies in open publication, which, with the rise of the Internet, is no longer constrained by the price of paper.

I’m a skeptic not because I do not want to believe, but because I want to know.

In comparison, Google is brilliant because it uses an algorithm that ranks Web pages by the number of links to them, with those links themselves valued by the number of links to their page of origin.

Either the soul survives death or it does not, and there is no scientific evidence that it does.

Physically, mentally, emotionally -- it seems like every part of me is broken in one way or another.

Loneliness is not a feeling caused by the lack of people around—it is a feeling caused by the lack of one person.

Do I think it's OK to fight authority as long as you're only talking about the high school teacher? No.

Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.

Experimental confirmation of a prediction is merely a measurement. An experiment disproving a prediction is a discovery.

TRUST in GOD and then GO and DO.

Men's fundamental attitudes toward the world are fixed by the scope and qualities of the activities in which they partake.

The Dark Side of the Moon has flash - the true flash that comes from the excellence of a superb performance.

I never volunteer to talk about god or religion, but people feel compelled to talk about it.

If I had a camera,' I said, 'I'd take a picture of you every day. That way I'd remember how you looked every single day of your life.