Many people want to send their children to faith schools because they get good exam results, but they're not foolish enough to believe that it's because of faith that they get good exam results.

...none of us will have forgotten that lesson. What matters is not the facts but how you discover and think about them: education in the true sense, very different from today's assessment-mad exam culture.

In the case of Stalinism, people actually distorted science because it was for the good of the Communist Party.

There are many very educated people who are religious, but they're not creationists.

In the World Wars, people were perfectly able to shoot other people just because they belonged to the wrong country, without ever asking what their opinions were. Faith too is like that.

People believe the only alternative to randomness is intelligent design.