Human vanity cherishes the absurd notion that our species is the final goal of evolution.

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.

Reading is a test, Its test like a water drop.Famine like you din't even saw it, but when you try to read a book its hard to take a startup but then as long as you read it you getting inside of it!

You are neither coffee nor tea, you are just the right amount ofwhatever it is I’m trying to find.

The ego is there, but I'm learning to channel it.

Kenny Burrell is overall the greatest guitarist in the world and he's my favorite.

My life isn't much different than when I worked full time as a journalist.

Food is "everyday"-it has to be, or we would not survive for long. But food is never just something to eat. It is something to find or hunt or cultivate first of all.

Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.

You should never use the word Karma when talking about someone else, it's only a concept you should apply to yourself as a matter of investigation.

Do you know what happened to the last person who took that tone with me? (Xypher) Let me guess…Disembowelment. Probably painful. Definitely slow. (Simone)

My experience of living with people of diverse religions and cultures taught me that one will never be at peace with the other if one is at war with oneself.