I thought perhaps it should be recognized that religious people, including fundamentalists, are quite intelligent, many of them are highly educated, and they should be treated with complete respect.

Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.

Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.

By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.

If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.