Genome sequencing has changed taxonomy.

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.

Your attitude of gratitude will bring you altitude in business and multitude in blessings.

Some things were secret even after you told them.

You're everything I write about in songs, but can never have." -Jax

What if we gave fifty percent of our discretionary budget to the world’s poor and then counted on the moral power of that action to protect us?

I think of my father born in this very small, limited situation and then coming out of that. Many people have this story.

I was as happy as a fish in water, and I could have stayed in that room for ever, have never left that place.

So we know that it's not enough for us to simply encourage more people to study abroad. We also need to make sure that they can actually afford it.

We think about sitting in a space and hearing some music by having our ears pointed forward towards the musicians sitting opposite us. I'm really not following that paradigm at all.

This bridge will take you halfway there - the last few steps you will have to take yourself.

I think one should be antagonistic to one's underlings. It keeps them on their toes. ~Soi Fon