I once wrote that anybody who believes the world is only 6,000 years old is either ignorant, stupid, insane or wicked.

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.

As a rationalist, pragmatist, and a scientist I rarely involve myself in the cosmological arguments of the creation of the universe.

His hands are behind his back.'Choose, ' he says.'I've already made my choice, ' I say, and I grab the sleeve of his leather jacket and pull him inside.

If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends-you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it that's the time to hold your tongue.

If you are an actress in L.A., on your 40th birthday they should just hand you the keys to the lunatic asylum.

They make the greatest show of what they have done, who have done least.

Consider the bigger picture.....think things through and fully commit!

the convictions of Hollywood and television are made of boiled money.

In a world that lives like a fist mercy is not more than waking with your hands open.

Beauty is the brilliance of truth.

A house is more than just a shelter; that it is a way of improving your way of life.