I get very frustrated by people more like the Taliban who seem to think it’s one or the other, and I have great respect, although he’s not a neuroscientist, for Francis Collins, for example, who is a very talented geneticist as you may know, who makes it very clear he’s a very committed Christian. And I think that the issue of faith and belief and how it works and what it does within the human mind, I think, are fascinating areas. ((Scale Of Knowledge)) And I think the people that dismiss anyone religious as stupid and wrong are themselves, I’d say, showing about the same flexibility as fundamentalists. ((Cosmology, Fundamentalism, Opposite Currents)) And Michael Faraday had a wonderful — he said “There’s nothing quite as frightening as somebody who knows they’re right.” ((Edgar Degas))

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