There is a significant difference between having no belief in a God and believing there is no God.

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.

Bean could see the hunger in their eyes. Not the regular hunger, for food, but the real hunger, the deep hunger, for family, for love, for belonging.

It's pretty impossible to be a South African and not have been personally affected by HIV or AIDS.

I'm not an expert in it, but it seems to me that you have to let the market forces go their course.

The stories that spread today empower us and give us belief in our own heroic potential.

It's great to be here. It's great to be anywhere.

People have enough ideas. The real question is "Which ideas are you going to use?".

One is a writer, or one is not.

I think when you start messing with your own hormones, it's crazy-making.

Between being 'right' and being kind, I know which way I vote.

Energy is so important. If you don't have it, don't bother with rock and roll.