It is almost as if the human brain were specifically designed to misunderstand Darwinism, and to find it hard to believe

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.

To become truly beautiful, learn to see the beauty all around you.

Jimmy used to drink liquor. Now he's running for president and he drinks Scotch, and I've never trusted a Scotch-drinker.

To the receptive soul the river of life pauseth not, nor is diminished.

War is the mother of everything.

Artists are perceptive, but they choose to write songs or make movies or paint pictures rather than simply keeping private diaries.

I came alone in this world, I have walked alone in the valley of the shadow of death, and I shall quit alone when the time comes.

Is not Jesus pointing to children even as models for grownups?

It's better to say nothing than spend 1,000 words or an hour speech saying nothing. Get to the point.

The Red Kimono tells it all—the bitterness and pain as well as the joy, pride and patriotism of a people too resilient to be beaten by racism.

How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?