Skepticism is not a position; it's a process.

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.

I’m going, ’ he said, and in the temple light, I caught his determination, and that strength he got from loving me. It made him brave.

Love is the greatest power and it is, if natural, the highest 'invisible food' from the infinite for soul and body.

We can't afford more top-down economics. What we need are policies that will grow and strengthen the middle class.

I like practicing law.

It has proved politically wiser to set goals than to start programs.

I want to stay in the moment and enjoy the great things that are happening.

The least a person can ask out of life is to be needed by someone.

The tendency of mans nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward.

All the women in the world would not make me lose an hour.

And I’m okay, I really am, most of the time. But sometimes, I’m just not.