That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismisse... - Christopher Hitchens

"How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape."

"Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay."

"We owe a huge debt to Galileo for emancipating us all from the stupid belief in an Earth-centered or man-centered (let alone God-centered) system. He quite literally taught us our place and allowed us to go on to make extraordinary advances in knowledge."

"To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation—is that good for the world?"

"Indeed, it's futile to try and use Holy Scripture to support any political position. I deeply distrust anyone who does. Just look at what an Islamic Republic is like."