The really important thing is learning how to sceptically question and rely on empirical evidence.

The lack of understanding of something is not evidence for God. It's evidence of a lack of understanding.

The purpose of education is not to validate ignorance but to overcome it.

I like to say that while antimatter may seem strange, it is strange in the sense that Belgians are strange. They are not really strange; it is just that one rarely meets them.

Without science, everything is a miracle.

As a scientist, I don't believe anything. Science shouldn't use the word belief. There are things more likely and less likely. Science can say nothing with absolute certainty.

[The writers of the holy books] did not even know the earth revolves around the sun. Why are we listening?

Forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today.

Keeping religion immune from criticism is both unwarranted and dangerous.

Whatever the evolutionary basis of religion, the xenophobia it now generates is clearly maladaptive.

It is a shame when nonsense can substitute for fact with impunity.

I think with my heart and love with my brain

It’s hard as hell to hold on to your dignity when the risen sun is too bright in your losing eyes

It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.

I wrote eight full-length adult novels in my twenties. None of them were published

In '87 - four years after 'Sports' was released - my family and I began vacationing in Montana. I soon bought my first piece of land in Ravalli County, in the western part of the state.

Why should anybody who doesn't like Donald Trump think, oh, well, I should think he is legitimate now?

Perhaps this very instant is your time.

At the end of the day, if you are an actor, you definitely know that you're just work-for-hire.

I have a great management team and great agents that assist me, and I take roles in feature films that I hope will show my other talents other than just comedy.

I feel outside of the system where you’re male or female. So I just retired from caring. I don’t represent myself as a man or as a woman. I represent myself by not participating as either.