I can remember at the age of about six being fascinated by the planets and learning all about Mars and Venus and things.

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 think life becomes a fabric of choices, interwoven, all related... I split my life into these two things, thief and lady

I was not always a Muslim, but once I was led into the absorption of prayer and the mysteries of the Qur’an, something troubled in me became still.

I would always be lonely, but no more alone.

An idea is a feat of association and the height of it is a good metaphor.

We need revelation for the calling of officers in the Church. Men should not be called merely through impression.

My Dad taught me that good health is all about living in gratitude.

Some praise me, some blame me. I go the other way.

Wisdom can’t prevent the storm.

If you're doing a musical, you should be out to give the audience something special, emotional, an uplifting feeling, something that stays with them.

To my eye Rubens' colouring is most contemptible. His shadows are a filthy brown somewhat the colour of excrement.