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

If saying that religion should be a private matter and should not have special influence in public life is illiberal, then 74% of U.K. Christians are illiberal, too.

Placebos work.

I'm not much given to straight, irony-free hero-worship.

In Britain, you don't usually learn about evolution until you are about 15. I should have thought that you should start at about 8. But I could be wrong about that.

I can handle heckling on evolution because it's my own field.

In the World Wars, people were perfectly able to shoot other people just because they belonged to the wrong country, without ever asking what their opinions were. Faith too is like that.

Teachers who help to open young minds perform a duty which is as near sacred as I will admit.

I think a fundamentalist is somebody who believes something unshakably and isn't going to change their mind.