It is not possible to be intellectually honest and believe in gods. And it is not possible to believe in gods and be a true scientist.

Chemistry begins in the stars. The stars are the source of the chemical elements, which are the building blocks of matter and the core of our subject.

Any argument that asserts that 'God did it' is a sign of a lazy mind.

I regard teaching religion as purveying lies.

The emergence of consciousness, like the unfolding of a leaf, relies upon restraint.

Truth is not arrived at by majority vote.

Science is almost totally incompatible with religion.

My aim is to argue that the universe can come into existence without intervention, and that there is no need to invoke the idea of a Supreme Being in one of its numerous manifestations.

[Religion is] a fantasy [and is] completely empty of any explanatory content. It is also evil.

The truth has no agenda.

Lotus's efforts around the Mac were pathetically unsuccessful, which is sad.

The most beautiful experience in the world is the experience of the mysterious.

I guess I so desperately want to see us put this planet right. It's so horrifying to me that a fifth of us are starving every night, and that forty thousand children die every single day.

I don't want to be in the Jerry Sandusky business.

It's OK to love your body the way it is.

...congenital killers and criminals are possessed of not one but two Y chromosomes, bearing a double dose, as it were, of genetically undesirable maleness.

Seducing him in the tub smelling of vinegar was out of the question. There had to be some boundaries.

You get crushes on people. You have to see them every day in that week. They're a fantastic person, and it could be a man or a woman.

there's not a boy on the planet worth this amount of angst. I know; i used to be one