I think what I'd really like to see would be a mass consciousness-raising movement so that we would all become vegetarian.

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.

He prays because he knows he doesn't control it. He's at the mercy of it.

All right, then, I'll go to hell.

I mean, that's a sad day in America when you're recalled because you did what you said you were going to do, and the public voted you in to do that.

Honor is self-esteem made visible in action.

So in all human affairs one notices, if one examines them closely, that it is impossible to remove one inconvenience without another emerging.

Hip-hop is a voice for voiceless poor people.

It takes a few years to prepare for a space mission.

Here lies William Trollope, Who made these stones roll up; When death took his soul up, His body filled this hole up

the backlash convinced the public that women's 'liberation' was the true contemporary American scourge - the source of an endless laundry list of personal, social, and economic problems.

People are only influenced in the direction in which they want to go, and influence consists largely in making them conscious of their wishes to proceed in that direction.