Any attempt at understanding humanity must include an explanation of the hold that supernatural belief continues to have on most of the human race.

Selling eternal life is an unbeatable business, with no customers ever asking for their money back after the goods are not delivered.

Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings.

The problem is that people think faith is something to be admired. In fact, faith means you believe in something for which you have no evidence.

Proof is not required to believe [in a god]. But some sign, some evidence is needed. None exists... Find some inkling of evidence. There is none.

The belief in supernatural forces remains to this day a yoke on the neck of humanity, but at least Thales made it possible, for those of us who wish it, to be free of that yoke.

Saying the universe is eternal simply is saying that it has no beginning or end, not that it had a beginning an infinite time ago

Nature is capable of building complex structures by processes of self-organization; simplicity begets complexity.

Fifteen years of skepticism has done more for me than 20 years of force-fed religion and 30 years of indifference in between.

In a poll taken in 1998, only 7 percent of the members of the US National Academy of Sciences, the elite of American scientists, said they believed in a personal god.

Thought, without the data on which to structure that thought, leads nowhere.

That time is long gone. But aren't we still the same people?

My job as a writer is simple.Write a book I’m proud of, and present it as a gift to the world.Some will love it.Some will hate it.That’s the nature of art.

It is by losing himself in the objective in inquiry creation and craft that a man becomes something.

When you aren't working, you really want to emulate the real version of yourself.

Even if animal experiments did result in a cure for AIDS, of which there is no chance, I'd be against it on moral grounds.

Philanthropy is not about the money. It's about using whatever resources you have at your fingertips and applying them to improving the world.

There is always something to be grateful for.

If nothing else, now we knew where to find each other, even if only time would tell if either of us would ever come looking.

The saddest day has gleams of light, The darkest wave hath bright foam beneath it. There twinkles o'er the cloudiest night, Some solitary star to cheer it.

I swore that I wouldn't be one of those parents who leaves a Bugaboo pram parked in the communal entry hall. Well guess what, ours is there right now.