There are a lot of legislators who are afraid that kids will learn science and lose their faith.

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.

The dynamics of film directing and fashion design - in the ways that I've done it - were not dissimilar.

Hale Irwin is the exception. He just does everything so well.

Terrorism works better as a tactic for dictatorships, or for would-be dictators, than for revolutionaries .

Jerusalem is old, Jerusalem is new, Jerusalem can hold Moslem, Christian, Jew.

We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.

For me anyway when a photograph is interesting, it's interesting because of the kind of photographic problem it states - which has to do with the contest between content and form.

The value the world sets upon motives is often grossly unjust and inaccurate.

He who is not proud of his own blood is not worthy of it.

She's my baby girl, Quinn. I want love for her. Real love. The kind that makes a man crazy inside. -Gibraltar to Quinn

The president began this program by executive order. He should immediately end it by executive order. For over a year now, he has said the program is illegal, and yet he does nothing.