The press and the public like certainty and affirmation of popular biases. But real science thrives on the capacity for doubt.

Jargon seems to be the place where the right brain and the left brain meet.

Only people who die very young learn all they really need to know in kindergarten.

In its more authoritarian forms, religion punishes questioning and rewards gullibility. Faith is not a function of stupidity, but a frequent cause of it.

What might once have been called whining is now exalted as a process of asserting selfhood; self-absorption is regarded as a form of self-expression.

Under the rubric of religious freedom, we respect the right to worship differently much more than the right to worship not at all.

Secularists are often wrongly accused of trying to purge religious ideals from public discourse. We simply want to deny them public sponsorship.

Faith is not a function of stupidity but a frequent cause of it.

As Camille Paglia's success has demonstrated, what is most marketable is absolutism and attitude undiluted by thought.

Whatever lessons we take from this dreadful attack (on the World Trade Center and Pentagon), we should never forget that it was, after all, a faith based initiative.

Tolerance is thin gruel compared to the rapture of absolute truths. It's not surprising that religious people are often better protected by atheists and agnostics than each other.

The Only Way Out Is To DIE!!!!

We are all daughters of God in various stages of construction.

I try to treat whoever I meet as an old friend [with dignity, with honor].

Man is small, and, therefore, small is beautiful.

I used biomechanics to save time when I was competing.

A Dodger uniform just doesn't look good with a cummerbund.

The dynamically orthodox orders of religious women will continue to grow, and the dying orders, which long ago opted for the lightest of Catholic Lite, will continue to die.

Successful gardening is doing what has to be done when it has to be done the way it ought to be done whether you want to do it or not.

Art is the colors and textures of your imagination.

Do it. Do it right. Do it right now.