Good and evil - I don't believe that there is hanging out there, anywhere, something called good and something called evil.

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.

The only unreachable dream is the one you don’t reach for.

Science without Philosophy leads to chaos. Philosophy without Science leads to nowhere. Only together they can construct a better world.

When did fact checking and journalism go their separate ways?

A perfectly clear photograph is a distortion of reality.

Instead of assuming everything you're being told is the truth, ask plenty of questions.

I've done for the most part pretty much what I intended - I ended up doing comedy, writing and painting. I've had a ball. And as I get older, I just become an older kid.

On the straight and narrow path, there are simply no corners to be cut.

I cannot conceive of Israel withdrawing if Arab states do not recognize Israel, within secure borders.

Nature, which makes nothing durable, always repeats itself so that nothing which it makes may be lost.

If any of my men kill prisoners, I'll kill them.