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

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

There doesn't seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.

Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.

We expect our movie stars to do extraordinary things, because they're iconic. But to capture the measure of achievement of those people on that airplane, it was essential to believe they were as ordinary as you or I.

For me, the peculiar qualities of faith are a logical outcome of this level of biological organization.