I am at a loss to reconcile the expensive and glossy production values of this book with the breathtaking inanity of the content.

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.

We like to admit to only that which already glows, although it is nobler to support brightness before it glows, not afterwards.

Don't be too full of yourself because of how people hail you. When your head is swelling, it means there is more empty space to fill in there!

Somebody's going to have to make the money to buy you all those books.""They're free, " Franny said. "I check them out of the library.""Well, thank God for libraries, " Caroline said.

To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish

The rinsed foam swirled into one drain that always clogged come October when the maples dropped Canadian propaganda over everything.

Pushing a company agenda on social media is like throwing water balloons at a porcupine.

Practice should always be based upon a sound knowledge of theory.

None are happy but by anticipation of change.

Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense.

I used to be a major people pleaser, but that way purgatory lies.