We Are A Very, Very Unusual Species.

Yesterday's Dangerous Idea Is Today's Orthodoxy And Tomorrow's Cliché.

It Is Fashionable To Wax Apocalyptic About The Threat To Humanity Posed By The Aids Virus, "mad Cow" Disease, And Many Others, But I Think A Case Can Be Made That Faith Is One Of The World's Great Evils, Comparable To The Smallpox Virus But Harder To Eradicate.

I Think There Could Be A Very Large Number Who Are Creationists By Default. Those Are The People I Want To Reach.

The Solution Often Turns Out More Beautiful Than The Puzzle.

I Think The Written Word Is Probably The Best Medium Of Communication Because You Have Time To Reflect, You Have Time To Choose Your Words, To Get Your Sentences Exactly Right. Whereas When You're Being Interviewed, Say, You Have To Talk On The Fly, You Have To Improvise, You Can Change Sentences Around, And They're Not Exactly Right.