The whole point of faith, in fact, is to believe regardless of the evidence, which is the very antithesis of science.

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.

When you are here, God is near.

The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it.

With faith, I love without any fear.

Our lives are cluttered by complexities and that leads to problems. Genius is the one solves simple problems which seem complicated.

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The terrorist attacks of September 11th and the courageous actions of our armed forces in Afghanistan and Iraq remind us that friends of tyranny and enemies of freedom still exist

I'm tired of pretending like I'm not bitching, a total fricking rock star from Mars...

It's much easier to wear your pain on the outside.

Take heed of the wrath of a mighty man, and the tumult of the people.

Can you be serious for two words?" "Not without effort.