PZ Myers Quotes

We were all born with wings. In times of doubt: spread them.

A BMW can't take you as far as a diploma.

Whatever the circumstances of your life, the understanding of type can make your perceptions clearer, your judgements sounder, and your life closer to your heart's desire

Comedy. It was just huge in my house. Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness, Monty Python and all those James Bond movies were highly regarded.

Extraverts ... cannot understand life until they have lived it. Introverts ... cannot live life until they understand it.

Books transmit values. They explore our common humanity. What is the message when some children are not represented in those books?

Austin sounds a little bit like Aston Martin, which is the type of car James Bond would drive.

Having a kid is like falling in love for the first time when you're 12, but every day.

Well, I like how people talk. I like language. You know, Linda Richman spoke in Yiddish.

There is an objective reality out there, but we view it through the spectacles of our beliefs, attitudes, and values.

Success requires enough optimism to provide hope and enough pessimism to prevent complacency.

If you've got a religious belief that withers in the face of observations of the natural world, you ought to rethink your beliefs - rethinking the world isn't an option.

When I began to read, I began to exist

Women saw everything, and they thought about everything. The result was wisdom. For men, this was a frightening state of affairs, which is why they insist on holding on to power.

I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't.

Silly is you in a natural state, and serious is something you have to do until you can get silly again.

My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare.

Cutting people out of your life is easy, keeping them in is hard.

The best-adjusted people are the ‘psychologically patriotic,’ who are glad to be what they are.

Let it all be animal, my life and death, hard and clean like that, anything but human...a lot I care, me with my red heart in the dark earth and my tattooed feet following the animal ways.

We need to tell young people that America was built by men and women of all colors and that the future of this country is dependent on the participation of all of our citizens.

Clinton had absolutely zero honeymoon, none whatsoever.

What children need is the conviction that satisfaction can and must be earned. ... Spoiled children do not learn the must.

We're deciding the fate of the multiverse with a flip of a coin. Heads or tails, doc. If that isn't a game, I don't know what is.

I like smart jokes, I like dumb jokes, and I like dumb jokes done smartly.

You psychologists focus on what is wrong with people; I want to focus on what is right and what could be right.

Reading is not optional.

This is a collaborative enterprise," she says. "You have to surround yourself with good people and help them to do what they do well, as opposed to micromanaging.

You can't think of risks. I have nothing to lose. You either make something that you like, or you don't, and you throw it to the universe.

I'll never live to write all the stories I have in my head.

Comedy and sausages are the two things that if you know how they're made they affect the appetite.

Introverted feeling types have a wealth of warmth and enthusiasm, but they may not show it until they know someone well. They wear their warm side inside, like a fur-lined coat.

We all know we should eat right and we should exercise, but reading is treated as if it's this wonderful adjunct.

Think about all the tomorrows of your life.

We need to tell kids flat out: reading is not optional.

Science is not infallible, but it has something religion lacks: a process of testing claims against real-world observations.

The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, love do not require coupons.

I was supposed to be authoritative, but at the same time had to be likeable, a quality that is a bonus, not a requirement, for men in the same position.

Religion is an act of sedition against reason. Whatever religion is most seductive and likely to draw in victims to surrender their skepticism is the worst.

Science provides tangible evidence of its accuracy and importance. Religion makes excuses for its absence of the same.

Yes, Bill Clinton is a big flirt.

Silence is an argument in favor of the status quo. A refusal to address an inequity is a strategy for maintaining that inequity.

We live our lives for our life's sake, rather than for illusions about rewards and satisfaction after we're dead.

I still believe that at any time the no-talent police will come and arrest me.

It's hard to be super full of yourself in Canada. If there was a motto of Canada, it would be, "Who do you think you are, eh?"

So they ended up turning this little twenty eight page book into the movie. And it's all about this stinky, smelly ogre who doesn't care what anybody thinks of him.

If you can't forgive yourself, how can you expect me to?

But in the end, we learn we can forgive most people. The cushion of mortality makes their wrongdoing seem less dark, and whatever roads they traveled seem less foolhardy.

Religion is a barbarous obsidian knife poised over our chests put it in a cabinet and admire it as a work of art, but don't ever wield the damned thing ever again.

Human beings are still fish.