The scientist believes in proof without certainty, the bigot in certainty without proof.

I am a humanist, which means, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without expectations of rewards or punishments after I am dead.

I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I’ve been an atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt it was intellectually unrespectable to say one...

[We need reforms] to make the Negro church a place where colored men and women of education and energy can work for the best things regardless of their belief or disbelief in unimportant dogmas and...

norms” of our current civilization. I have devoted my life to amassing over a quarter million pieces of sf and fantasy as a present to posterity and I hope to be remembered as an altruist...

Ramadan is, in its essence, a month of humanist spirituality.

And the person who says that the only way to please them is to restrict options for others is, if you ask me, the one who deserves it least. And that’s my opinion, expressed as...

The ‘tragedy’ of the slow growth of immortalism pertains mostly to them, and perhaps to you – not so much to me or to us, the committed immortalists. We already have made our arrangements for...

I’m a humanist at heart: at the end of the day, we are all human beings.

I am an atheist, a rationalist and a humanist.

The humanitarian philosophies that have been developed (sometimes under some religious banner and invariably in the face of religious opposition) are human inventions, as the name implies – and our species deserves the credit. I...

…The existence or non-existence of an undefined ‘god’ are quite pointless.[From ‘Why I am a Secular Humanist’]

If Allah wants to send me a message,he’ll do so on the faces of my brothers and sisters.

Next year, Equality Now will celebrate – if that’s the word – will clock its twentieth year. Two decades of fighting the good fight, fighting the cause, and in case I haven’t been the clear,...

At the end of the day I have many answers for it. It has to do with my mom, who was an extraordinary woman, and a great feminist. It has to do with the people...

If I could create something that is even minutely close to a small percentile of a genius as Cloud Atlas, I shall deem my life worthy!