I think a fundamentalist is somebody who believes something unshakably and isn't going to change their mind.

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.

Good is good and bad is bad, and nowhere is the difference between good and bad so wide and so fateful as in human character. For character makes destiny in the individual and in the race.

A Christian atmosphere is no protection against preening egos.

I WAS NEVER THE SAME AGAIN EVER SINCE SHE PASSED AWAY, MY MOM

Truth forever on the scaffold wrong forever on the throne.

I can still wake up the next day and feel that there's something that needs to be done, which always amuses me.

There is no creation without tradition. No one creates from nothing.

And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have.

I was too impatient to work at the usual duties assigned women on newspapers.

You look back, and it was important to bring back instrumental music, and it was great to be a part of that wave of instrumental rock music. And clearly it was something I was destined to do.