“Take them out onto the verandah and beat them with a cricket bat…. Be intellectually rigorous. Identify your biases, your prejudices, your privilege.”

If anyone can show me … that there is any reason – other than fear – to believe in any version of an afterlife, I’ll give you my piano, one of my legs, and my wife.

I spend so much time hating (my body) but it never says a bad word about me

Science is awesome. The arts and sciences need to work together to improve how knowledge is communicated.

A famous bon mot asserts that opinions are like arse-holes, in that everyone has one.

Once you reject evidence as a source of knowledge, you don’t gotta believe nothin’ you don’t like.

Respect people with less power then you. I don’t care if you’re the most powerful cat in the room,

Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just THIS?

Science is not a body of knowledge or a belief system, it is just a term that describes humankind’s incremental acquisition of understanding through observation.

It is just a term which describes humankind’s incremental acquisition of understanding through observation. Science is awesome.

Love without evidence is stalking.

It’s the fine balance of caffeine and alcohol that bookends my days

There is great wisdom in this… but I would add that opinions differ significantly from arse-holes, in that yours should be constantly and thoroughly examined.

The existence of a higher power with any consciousness or interest in the human race or ability to punish or reward humans for their moral choices or that there is any reason other than fear to believe in any version of an afterlife, I will give you my piano, one of my legs and my wife.

If I had a religion, its deity would be Audysseus, the sound God, and He would be a vengeful god, dishing out eternal damnation to people with cheap stage monitors.

Empathy is intuitive, but it is also something you can work on intellectually.

Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just this beautiful, complex wonderfully unfathomable world?

I don’t believe that there’s a good guy and a bad guy. Unless it’s like Superman or Batman, there is no good guy and bad guy.

I got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat but that’s OK – the bat had to get Ozzy shots.

My pitching philosophy is simple – keep the ball way from the bat.

A lifetime contract for a coach means if you’re ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can’t fire you.

People have asked me a lot of times, because I didn’t hit a lot, how long a dozen bats would last me.

You throw batting practice, you warm up pitchers, you sit and cheer. You do whatever you have to do to stay on the team.

He’s just angry because the president doesn’t shoot old men in the face.

And I can say that I’ll pay to watch MS Dhoni bat.