Personal
He is married to Louise Weinberg and has one daughter, Elizabeth.
His views on religion were expressed in a speech from 1999 in Washington, D.C.:
- "With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil—that takes religion. "
He has also said:
- "The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it seems pointless."
He attended and was a speaker at the Beyond Belief symposium in November 2006.
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