I get the feeling more and more that religion is being left behind.

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.

How many miles to Babylon?Three score and ten!Can I get there by candle light?Yes, and back again?

In this atmosphere Where you have to go perennially crazy only to survive, Which auspicious moment should I choose to become mad?

Ramming it up the middle only works if you soften the defenses up a little first, " the coach said.

One is always considered mad when one perfects something that others cannot grasp.

Expert: An ordinary man away from home giving advice.

Remember the movements that don't look like moving.

Hunches [are] just messages from the subconscious, which [is] thinking furiously all the time and processing information we have not consciously noted.

The big problem is time. I don't have enough of it to do all the things I think about doing.

The poet is he who can write some pure mythology today without the aid of posterity.

He who has a pure heart will never cease to pray; and he who will be constant in prayer, shall know what it is to have a pure heart.