A point, like a joke, is a terrible thing to miss.

If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite different world.

Islamophobia: a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.

Religion is poison because it asks us to give up our most precious faculty, which is that of reason, and to believe things without evidence. It then asks us to respect this, which it calls faith.

Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence.

Human beings are pattern-seeking animals who will prefer even a bad theory or a conspiracy theory to no theory at all.

I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.

High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.

What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation.

The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has—from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness.

If you persist, you will prevail.

When he admires the man he calls his father: a man slightly above the scum of the earth—what does that speak about he who admires him?

Improved memory made possible the long-term recollection of dreams and visions and the construction of those recollections into a spirit world.

Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money.

I took up arms for the freedom of my color. It is our own - we will defend it or perish.

I am bad at memory - this is why I shoot pictures.

Must I be carried to the skies on flowery beds of ease, while others fought to win the prize and sailed through bloody seas?

Come morning I found the day as I have found every other day--without relief or explanation.

The political process consists entirely of politicians talking out of their butts.

Nothing is so good for the morale of the troops as occasionally to see a dead general.