The concept of God is generated by a brain designed by evolution to find design in nature (a very recursive idea).

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.

Read for the sake of using others knowledge to find your own inner guidance.

Create your own miracles, don't just wait for miracles to happen. Infinite possibilities exist by keeping focus on what you really want.

Tony, Tony, come around, something's lost that can't be found.

You will never be able to defend your city while shouting.

Words, for me, don't have as much contextual leeway as sound.

I don't want to be without God's blessings.

The right of self-defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals.

But certainly I didn't know he was doing anything that was criminal.

The fire of love and the cold of time, deprive my sweet love of his peace of mind.

In God we trust; all others bring data.