If you are asking me if my more global purpose is a battle against religion, it is.

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.

Don't always use prudence for precaution, sometimes use it for progress.

Never give up. It might not seem easy at first but in the end, it will all be worth it

Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen.

People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.

Beijing didn't go the way I planned and I would have liked to have performed a little bit better personally. After Beijing that is what stuck in my mind. I want a better Olympic finish.

Christianity teaches that the human race is depraved, fallen, and sinful.

A photograph can look anyway. It just depends basically on what you photograph.

I think overall it is better for businesses to stay private because you have more latitude, more freedom.

He will apologize, or I'll give him a lesson in swordplay he will not like at all.

Why I so much prefer autumn to spring is that in the autumn one looks at heaven--in the spring at the earth.