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Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.

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Something about the cultural tradition of Jews is way, way more sympathetic to science and learning and intellectual pursuits than Islam.

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Science, as opposed to technology, does violence to common sense.

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It has become almost a cliché to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and...more

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A biochemist colleague has kindly provided me with a bottle of hydrogen peroxide, and enough hydroquinone for 50 bombardier beetles, I am now about to...more

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Science is the poetry of reality.

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Science is interesting, and if you don't agree you can fuc

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Even those who do not, or cannot, avail themselves of a scientific education, choose to benefit from the technology that is made possible by the scien...more

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…the Genesis story is just one that happened to have been adopted by one particular tribe of Middle Eastern herders. It has no more special status tha...more

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Religion enjoys astonishing privileges in our societies, privileges denied to almost any other special interest group one can think of-and certainly d...more

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The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes me to compose this sen...more

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DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.

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What matters is not the facts but how you discover and think about them.

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A god who is capable of sending intelligible signals to millions of people simultaneously, and of receiving messages from all of them simultaneously, ...more

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And some scientists and other intellectuals are convinced—too eagerly in my view—that the question of God's existence belongs in the forever inaccessi...more