I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.

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.

Only half of writing is saying what you mean. The other half is preventing people from reading what they expected you to mean.

Women are beautiful because the world sees with the eyes of men and us men are still influencing the preferences of humanity.

There is no home as comfortable as your father's arms and no bed as soft as your mother's lap.

We are nothing but shadows Fading away Trying to hold on to This bittersweet life That we call our own...

Except for events that carry great weight, it is not experience per se, but how they match expectations, that governs their emotional impact

Poetry is frosted fire.

America's political system is superior to the crony corrupt corrupt capital system in Russia in every way.

There are lots of real men out there - men who could fall in love with you at the drop of a hat.

You be greater than your feelings. I don't demand this of you - life does. Otherwise you'll be washed away by feelings. You'll be washed out to sea and never seen again.

And, indeed, what little of beauty and peace is to be found in the societies of men is owing to the daily performance of small duties, not to big doings and fine talk.