3. These are the most rational and objective methods to discern truth from falsehood, fiction from non-fiction, and the most effective tools to avoid fooling others and ourselves.

Being wrong is nothing to be ashamed of, but granting infallibility to someone is.

It is up to each of us to define our purpose for ourselves.

Religious faith, indeed belief in any supernatural proposition that cannot be positively demonstrated by means of independently verifiable, independently reproducible, theoretically falsifiable, empirical, objective evidence, is an act of supreme intellectual dishonesty.