Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion.

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.

Is my victory real, does the winner adorned with a laurel wreath ask this question? Do I deserve victory or did I steal it from someone who is more worthy of victory?

I will not be revenged, and this I owe to my enemy; but I will remember, and this I owe to myself.

The day will bring some lovely thing.

As Australians, we must not leave our children worse off. That’s not fair. That is not our way.

Worry is irrelevant. It alters nothing. When was the last time you solved a problem by worrying about it?

I definitely like performing to a crowd that's there to see a female hero.

The comedy of class, played so straight, is a wonderful thing for an actor to sink their teeth into.

There is a vast difference between merely knowing about Christ and actually knowing Him-the difference between heaven and hell.

We cannot sense without acting and we cannot act without sensing.

I don't care if you print something nasty about me. If it's true, fine. I don't care. But just make sure it's the truth.