[E]xceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.

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

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.

[T]o believe in a god is in one way to express a willingness to believe in anything. Whereas to reject the belief is by no means to profess belief in nothing.

How much vanity must be concealed – not too effectively at that – in order to pretend that one is the personal object of a divine plan?

When we stop fighting against death, we are able to wake up to our lives.

Thoughts were zipping around my head like fireflies in a jar, bumping into each other, blinking on and off.

My parents are great listenersWhich is why I never tell them anything

I think the very best thing about the internet is that I can read all the London papers every day if I want to.

You can never become rich unless you like rich people.

Perfection is not a final state. It is a state of mind. There are ten thousand states of mind.

Our consciences are not all of the same pattern.

Lightening falls, all you can do is- pray God that it doesn't fall on you.

My students know I have a life, they know I've written about my life. They know some detail, probably more than they know about their physics teacher, but I would've told them anyway!

Of course, everybody's family is dysfunctional - we've accepted that. What are we supposed to do? Hate our parents for the rest of our lives?