I didn't have a very starry school career, I was medium to above average, nothing special.

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 weren’t allies, but not being enemies was close enough for me.

My lone desire stands, looking like beauty on a cloud, ripe for my picking, ready for me to ravish and pleasure. Waiting for me to tempt and tease. Satisfy and gratify.

I can now recreate life in a way that was hidden from me, before.'A dream of form in days of thought:

The spark of a genius exists in the brain of the truly creative man from the hour of his birth. True genius is always inborn and never cultivated, let alone learned.

I'm a common woman sharing common problems seeking common solutions on a journey with an uncommon Savior.

You'd got a baseball game, or a football game, basketball game, "USA! USA! USA!" Hey, calm down! Got a little German on it, don't you think?

One of the things that Africa needs, everybody seems to agree, is some measure of debt relief.

There are three different kinds of scripting: functional, informational and emotional.

Luce: But I thought you said I should stay away from the hard cases. Arriane: Rule number two — don't listen to me!

As long as I didn't have to put on the tiara and the chains and the big yellow shirt for the whole series, I was up for anything.