It can be consoling to think your children are in heaven. You have got to understand that that doesn't make it true. Many people cannot understand that distinction.

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.

I can no more understand the totality of God than the pancake I made for breakfast understands the complexity of me

It's in giving yourself that you possess yourself

Living in a small town, I knew everybody and everybody knew me.

I never took myself too seriously.

They tire of quiet, that have known the storm

Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases.

The furnace of affliction refines us from earthly drossiness, and softens us for the impression of God's own stamp.

The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy.

Funny how someone telling you not to do something can talk you into it.

When you people have a set up joke and the joke is set up straight and the words are just well written, I always say "C'mon, humans don't speak that way."