All life evolves by the differential survival of replicating entities.

Much as we might wish to believe otherwise, universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts which simply do not make evolutionary sense.

Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.

Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that's also the definition of delusion.

Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don't see you jumping out of buildings.

Such delusions of grandeur to think that a God with a hundred billion galaxies on his mind would give a tuppenny damn who you sleep with, or indeed whether you believe in him.

The less you think, the more you believe.

How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the true one.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

Science is the poetry of reality.

The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.

What a wise person teaches is the smallest part of what they give. The totality of their life, of the way they go about it in the smallest details, is what gets transmitted.

Don't let it be forgot That once there was a spot -For one brief shining moment That was known as Camelot.

I think when you're happy, emotions are right near the top - mine definitely are. I cry easily, I laugh easily, I lose my temper easily... and I beg for forgiveness easily.

One or two of their players aren't getting any younger

Our generation does not want its epitaph to read, 'We kept charity overhead low.' We want it to read that we changed the world.

I think future generations will say the late 20th century and the early 21st century was a time of great convulsions and upheavals.

One of the things that I do like about filmmaking is that you find out how to solve new problems.

You must understand the feeling of originating as opposed to imitating.

The great trues are too important to be new.

Life's uncertain voyage.