Whatever the evolutionary basis of religion, the xenophobia it now generates is clearly maladaptive.

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.

It is a shame when nonsense can substitute for fact with impunity.

The fact is that people would rather cling when they're afraid of something to a priori beliefs than rather open their minds about it.

We South Asians have sycophancy in our genes!

I went to art high school and thought I'd be a painter. Unfortunately I didn't finish high school, but that's always been part of my work.

I would love when that day comes so I can prove everyone wrong, but in the same time prove to myself I can be the best I can be.

Both my mother and father were very supportive of any career move any of us wanted to make.

In good times, we all want to drop anchor, to stop in time! But man is condemned to move till the far end of the precipice!

If I had quietly retired as governor in 2007 and went into banking or something of that nature, I would have been, at most, a footnote in the story and probably never mentioned.

Consider as sin any minute of life spent on something other than saving souls for eternity from this world doomed to destruction.

Strange priests are they who never straightly walk But all aslant through sideways passage stalk Who never seek their goals in forward lines But move askew as fraught with sly designs