By being outside of nature, God is also outside of space and time.

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.

You are often prevented from reaching your full potential because you hold so tightly to your past success.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold.

Writing is more than a craft

The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.

real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it.

Television series are like the stock market. There's room for bears and bulls but no room for pigs.

There were two second division matches last night, both in the second division.

To understand the world, one’s place in it, is to be always at the risk of drowning.

Shun idleness. It is rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.