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

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.

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.

Don't ask God to cure cancer and world poverty. He's too busy finding you a parking space and fixing the weather for your barbecue.

Surely no one would ever use such a weapon against a city.""There are no limits in war, " Volger said, still staring out the window.

Conceit may bring about one's own downfall.

Sometimes failure makes your future because you set the past on fire.

The most beautiful thing I have ever seen in a movie theatre is to go down to the front and turn around, and look at all the uplifted faces, the light from the screen reflected upon them.

Even when you paint, you never stop drawing.

God would be the strangest thing to exist.

It's not the principles that kill you in the end. It's the books.

If there is anything in your life that takes away your happiness, you have all the power you need to change it.

The reason academic disputes are so vicious is that so little is at stake.

Performers have the right to say what they want to, and anyone paying money has the right to accept or reject the art and entertainment that's available.