We all trust each other to some extent. We have to rely on experts to some extent, but we should learn to be sceptical.

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.

Sometimes exhaustion is not a result of too much time spent on something, but of knowing that in its place, no time is spent on something else.

I really think it's a white, bourgeois idea to pretend that you don't have influences. It seems to be the obsession strictly of white people in college.

Working people are working even longer hours, even though we won the eight-hour workday at the Haymarket General Strike in Chicago.

It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.

9/11 references are like Lay's potato chips...no Congress can make just one.

South Africa had a long record of studies in prehistory, going back to the end of the last century.

Of course women can have it all - if they want it all. I won't hear any defeatist talk. If you just dwell on problems, you won't get anywhere fast.

You need to realize that most writing rules aren't laws, they're rules of thumb.

You can be prosecuted if you tell the truth about Islam.

Old folks are the nation.