I mean, in a way, I feel that one of the reasons for learning about Darwinian evolution is as an object lesson in how not to set up our values and social lives.

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.

Believe me, Nóra. An old broom knows the dirty corners best

Vow not to remain stagnant in life. We all have weaknesses in our various lives, but they are not permanent as long as we keep on identifying them and turning them into strengths.

My chief occupation, despite appearances, has always been love.

And I like music, too, I like playing music.

The institutional scene in which American man has developed has lacked that accumulation from intervening stages which has been so dominant a feature of the European landscape.

The Democratic Party is getting very angry, and that came through clearly in this election.

Divorce is one of the key predictors of poverty for a child growing up in a home that's broken.

I wanted to write rather than do anything else. But 'cause I left school at 15, I didn't know what a noun was, still don't.

Around '75 when the recession hit, club owners started going to disco because it was cheaper for them to just buy a sound system than it was to hire a band.

What Einstein was able to do was - to use a cliche - think out of the box.