You shouldn't be afraid of science. Accepting the reality of nature makes life more exciting and even more precious.

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.

There's a time when you have to explain to your children why they were born and it's a marvelous thing if you know the reason by then.

I'm concerned about the role the court will play in protecting individual rights in this and the next century.

Presence is a state of inner spaciousness

We are like oil and vinegar most of the time. But when you shake us up real good, the combination is heavenly.~ Anna Segee, The Stranger in Her Bed

Doing fashion drawings was the only way I had to express myself when I was a teenager.

Life was just a tire swing. 'Jambalaya' was the only song I could sing. Blackberry pickin', eatin' fried chicken, And I never knew a thing about pain. Life was just a tire swing.

You may feel singled out when adversity enters your life. You shake your head and wonder, 'Why me?'

I'm instinctively a Conservative.

All the sands of the world even when they unite together cannot create the hardness of a single rock!

I am not sure I am ready to know what I think about that, so I dare not write it out.