My mom used to tell me: It's not what you weigh; it's what you look like.
Remember always that we are pattern-seeking primates who are especially adept at finding patterns with emotional meaning.
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.
In the past 10,000 years, humans have devised roughly 100,000 religions based on roughly 2,500 gods. So the only difference between myself and the believers is that I am skeptical of 2,500 gods whereas they are skeptical of 2,499 gods. We're only one God away from total agreement.
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.
I came into an environment that was already grounded spiritually, so that helped me a lot.
I have often regretted having spoken, never having kept silent
History teaches everything, even the future.
If you're a Christian you can't have an "I'm better than" attitude toward anyone because everybody is somebody for whom Jesus died.