Beauty arises out of human inspiration.

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.

After all, if spinster chaperons required their own spinster chaperons there simply wouldn't be enough to go around.

Learn to accept and bend like the willow. For if you resist, you will break like the oak.

In all realms of life it takes courage to stretch your limits, express your power, and fulfill your potential. It’s no different in the financial realm

he needed the security of other bodies.

Cleveland is a really hard place, it's a very creative place, it feeds you creatively, but it's a very hard place to make a living creatively.

What we call evil, it seems to me, is simply ignorance bumping its head in the dark.

Time spent with poets is never wasted.

We don't need virtual reality, we need virtual unreality.

There are so many fans and so many people who care deeply about this game, and it is because of these fans that we are who we are as cricketers.

In general, a fact is worth more than theories in the long run. The theory stimulates, but the fact builds. The former in due time is replaced by one better but the fact remains and becomes fertile.