Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

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.

The warrior of the night knows the sacredness of warfare.

We have pain and hate and love and joy and war in the world because we want them.

I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.

You are beautiful and perfect and lovely HOWEVER you are.

What the result means is that the Franco-German axis is in serious trouble. It's the end of a phase which began in 2002.

It turns out your not dyslexic, your just really really stupid.

Attitude is tremendously important in chasing success - in any field of endeavour. That's why I believe talent alone will get you very little in this world.

The void yields up nothing. You have to be a great poet to make it ring.

The key to getting a reputation for being brilliant is actually being brilliant, not just acting like you are.

Spaceflight is nothing less than the exterior metaphor for the shamanic voyage. In other words, in our terms, the hallucinogenic experience. This is the way engineers get high. They go to the moon!