When alien abductees recount to me their stories, I do not deny that they had a real experience.

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.

Taxes for people with too much damned time on their hands.

Never underestimate somebody's silence. Lot more is conveyed through it. A person who respects human emotions will understand this better.

The return makes one love the farewell.

If I have managed to brighten up even one gloomy childhood – then I’m satisfied.

Life shouldn't be printed on dollar bills.

Every penny of the $7 billion going to Africa as per Obama will be stolen - corruption is rampant!

In my films, all the great things are put together. It's not like one kind of ice cream but rather a very big Sundae.

Why do people shush animals? Theyve never spoken

Character is expressed through our behavior patterns, or natural responses to things.