Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority.

Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.

Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong.

Creationists eagerly seek a gap in present-day knowledge or understanding. If an apparent gap is found, it is assumed that God, by default, must fill it.

Real life seeks the gentle slopes at the back of Mount Improbable, while creationists are blind to all but the daunting precipice at the front.

Evil…doesn’t mean doing things that have bad consequences for people. It means private thoughts and actions that are not to “the Christian majority’s” private liking.

We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

Why, I can't help wondering, is God thought to need such ferociousdefence? One might have supposed him amply capable of lookingafter himself.

Do those people who hold up the Bible as an inspiration tomoral rectitude have the slightest notion of what is actually writtenin it?

However statistically improbable the entity you seek to explain by invoking a designer, the designer himself has got to be at least as improbable. God is the Ultimate Boeing 747.

More generally, as I shall repeat in Chapter 8, one of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us that it is a virtue to be satisfied with not understanding.

What Does Not Kill you Builds You .

Follow your heart even if she is wrong, because only few dares to do that.

Pacino's always played the suffering prince. I just find that interesting.

My father was a physicist and also an activist. My first public protest was with my dad at Stanford. I came by all that honestly.

The mixing of politics and business not only is detrimental to politics, as is frequently observed, but even much more so to business.

It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.

Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.

I've seen lifelong friends drift apart over golf just because one could play better, but the other counted better.

Love is the only real patriation, and without one's dear one sits in a dreary and boring exile.

I am society’s child. This is how they made me and now I’m sayin’ what’s on my mind and they don’t want that. This is what you made me, America.