“I strongly believe in the separation of church and state. But freedom of religion does not mean freedom from religion, there is a better way.”

Scientists with access to data from Navy submarines traversing underneath the North polar ice cap have warned that there is now a 75 percent chance that within five years the entire ice cap will completely disappear during the summer months.

In digital era, privacy must be a priority. Is it just me, or is secret blanket surveillance obscenely outrageous?

The debate’s over. The people who dispute the international consensus on global warming are in the same category now with the people who think the moon landing was staged on a movie lot in Arizona.

We’re operating this planet like a business in liquidation.

Each and every one of us can make changes in the way we live our lives and become part of the solution [to climate change]

When fear displaces reason, the result is often irrational hatred and division.

The warnings about global warming have been extremely clear for a long time. We are facing a global climate crisis. It is deepening. We are entering a period of consequences.

I think the fact that within the bitcoin universe an algorithm replaces the functions of the government is actually pretty cool. I am a big fan of bitcoin.

For me, the most disturbing aspect of the Republican political culture is how it puts its unquenchable thirst for power, domination and a radical ideology above facts, reason and the truth.

Distributed intelligence is the key to the advancement of human civilization. Dictatorships, communist countries, monarchies in the past all eventually collapsed because of their inefficiency in moving information.

We have a planetary emergency. We have to find a way to create, in the generation of those alive today, a sense of generational mission.

Making consumer choices that reward eco-friendly products and companies is a great way to start.

Our new technologies, combined with our numbers, have made us, collectively, a force of nature.

When it comes to climate, we can all make a big difference.

Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil disobedience is quite understandable, and it has a role to play.

The will to act is a renewable resource.

There are those who believe justice and dignity are reserved only for some people. Young men have died in police custody, and the growing heel of poverty has worn down harder on children of color…We must fight back.

There are no good reasons to believe in god.

I’m a tremendous believer and supporter in hip-hop and rap.

There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.

Before we pray that God would fill us, I believe we ought to pray Him to empty us.

We have been given God in our souls and Christ in our flesh. We have the power to believe where others deny, to hope where others despair, to love where others hurt.

One can be sophisticated and believe in God. Reason and intellect are not to be laid aside where matters of religion are concerned.

Love is believable. I reckon I’ll just see it when I see it.