God's existence is either true or not. But calling it a scientific question implies that the tools of science can provide the answer.

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.

I know you may feel so far that circumstances have directed your path, but right now I want you to know that you do have a choice.

And I’m trying to stay strong. I really, really am. But he smells so damn good, and his lips are just right there. All soft and inviting… and all I can think about is having them on my body.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

Even trees understand me! Good heavens, I lie under them, too, don't I? I'm just like a pile of leaves.

I've never done a blind date but my parents met on a blind date.

The ideal is the flower-garden of the mind, and very apt to run to weeds unless carefully tended.

I think Australians do well here because we feel a bit naughty, like we're in America and if they only knew how much fun we were having, we'd all get thrown out, you know.

I want to do a show about a woman who's juggling a career with a relationship.

I don't always vote in general elections, but I think I've always voted Labour.

Caesar's armies marched on vegetarian foods.