Just because quantum mechanics is weird does not mean that everything that is weird is quantum mechanics.

Selling eternal life is an unbeatable business, with no customers ever asking for their money back after the goods are not delivered.

Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings.

The problem is that people think faith is something to be admired. In fact, faith means you believe in something for which you have no evidence.

Proof is not required to believe [in a god]. But some sign, some evidence is needed. None exists... Find some inkling of evidence. There is none.

The belief in supernatural forces remains to this day a yoke on the neck of humanity, but at least Thales made it possible, for those of us who wish it, to be free of that yoke.

Saying the universe is eternal simply is saying that it has no beginning or end, not that it had a beginning an infinite time ago

Nature is capable of building complex structures by processes of self-organization; simplicity begets complexity.

Fifteen years of skepticism has done more for me than 20 years of force-fed religion and 30 years of indifference in between.

In a poll taken in 1998, only 7 percent of the members of the US National Academy of Sciences, the elite of American scientists, said they believed in a personal god.

Any attempt at understanding humanity must include an explanation of the hold that supernatural belief continues to have on most of the human race.

Use your wisdom and life’s lessons to take you higher. Give yourself no other choices but to move forward and to succeed.

And I'm okay with drowning.

I've said it before, but it's absolutely true: My mother gave me my drive, but my father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future.

I never could have written the screenplay because I would have been forced to learn new software and I can't learn one more thing.

I came alone and I go as a stranger. I do not know who I am, nor what I have been doing.

Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg, by the side of which more will be laid.

I'd love to be a mad scientist who plays around with chemistry, and solves all the world's problems and creates a few of them himself.

I once blurted out that I found it impossible to bond with my son Winston because I was too tired. I mean how bloody awful does that sound? What a tosser!

The face is the soul of the body.

So take care of your life and take notice and be observant, for the number of widows is always far greater than the number of widowers.