I don't see that [Richard] Dawkins' basic account of evolution is incompatible with God's having designed it.

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.

Men and women…they are interested in each others bodies first. Other things come later.

But, you know, all good rock is easy.

A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it... Skepticism is the first step toward truth.

Your life is not a dress rehearsal - this is it! It's show time!

A lot of people... are afraid of pictures which have visible emotions in them. They feel calmer in front of pictures which are placid.

Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place.

Once the state is looked upon as the source of rights, rather than their bound protector, freedom becomes conditional on the pleasure of the state.

Garlic bread - it's the future, I've tasted it.

Speaking as one who has abused privilege a long time, I tell you, it's great to be alive.

He took a duck in the face at 250 knots.