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 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.

[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.

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.

She might not be sweetShe might not be upbeatShe is womanHer strength finespun —To the unkind, She changes her mind.Oh woman, solid purebred.Hold high your head.

Yeah, there has to be a few screws loose when a girl asks you to drop everything to spend a three-day weekend on very short notice, and you say okey dokey without a care in the world.

It is through that brokenness that we find courage and strength. It is what empowers us to do great things.

God can answer every need.

I think some people are just very passionate that things remain the way they were when they were kids.

That's what I like about Neil Jordan's films: everyone is better at what they do than you are.

The stars in the sky will hang there till You tell them to.

As chairman of the DNC, [Keith ] Ellison says he would replicate that kind of turnout on a national scale. But we spoke yesterday about some history that could stand in the way.

All for the Eucharist; nothing for me

Very few persons go through life without at least one big chance. The fact that so many do not grasp it is due more often to fear than to any other one thing.