There is no horror, no amount of evil in the world, that a true believer can't rationalize as consistent with a loving God. It's the ultimate way of fooling yourself.

If the history of science shows us anything, it is that we get nowhere by labeling our ignorance “God”.

Faith is a padlock of the mind, and few keys can open it.

If the history of science teaches us anything, it is that what conquers our ignorance is research, not giving up and attributing our ignorance to the miraculous work of a creator.

Religion is based on dogma and belief, whereas science is based on doubt and questioning.

We don't have faith in reason; we use reason because, unlike revelation, it produces results and understanding. Even discussing why we should use reason employs reason!

In religion, faith is a virtue. In science, faith is a vice.

Damn, but science is just a constant feed of cool new facts and theories. Theology doesn't come close.

Can a geology teacher blithely tell his students that the earth is flat, or a European history professor that the Holocaust didn't happen? That's not academic freedom, but dereliction of duty.

Evolution tells us where we came from, not where we can go.

We now have many of the answers that once eluded Darwin, thanks to two developments that he could not have imagined: continental drift and molecular taxonomy.

No one is to blame for your future situation but yourself. If you want to be successful, then become "Successful".

I foster a lot. Not humans, animals.

We don't need wings to be angels We don't need reasons to be right Your love makes us all better That who we really are Angels and heroes at heart

I never say I have a preference for one medium as opposed to another.

We all know we're going to die one day, but who wants to think about it? What's sustainable is joy, pleasure and freedom.

The causal body holds the structure. The causal body is the coding. So you are not just scattered all over the ten thousand states of mind.

I saw what looked like another fallen tree in front of me and put my foot on it to cross over. At that moment it reared up in front of me-the biggest python I had ever seen!

I do not want to see the Republican party ride to political victory on the Four Horsemen of Calumny-fear, ignorance, bigotry and smear.

They are emotional gluttons, both of them. They gobbled up every sensation they could extract from marriage, and now they are seeing if separation won't provide them with a few more.

After Big Media, U.S. colleges and universities are the biggest enemies of the values of red-state Americans.