By no definition of any modern scientist is intelligent design science, and it's a waste of our students' time to subject them to it.

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 is only one religion - it is a way a man dies.

No matter how dark and hopeless a situation might seem, never stop praying.

Real kings and queens are people whose heads are crowned with dreams as they sit on the throne of passion. They rule with visions in the regalia of inspirations!

It was when I saw Iggy Pop, that's what did it for me. That changed my life pretty much.

'Fox News' will one day come to an end. Led Zeppelin will not. It's as simple as that.

I got hooked on espresso when I visited Italy at 18, but these days I prefer a 'flat white.' It's like a small latte with less milk - they're popular in Australia.

Find a pile of gold and sit on it.

My weight fluctuates constantly—I don't really take good care of myself. I just sort of exist and survive.

Your sins are great? Just tell the Lord: Forgive me, help me to get up again, change my heart!

It all starts with the script: it's not worth taking myself away from my family if I don't have something I'm really passionate about.