Life results from the non-random survival of randomly varying replicators. The watchmaker is blind

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.

One should forgive one's enemies, but not before they are hanged.

Worship must occupy us full-time for a lifetime because our final destination is Heaven—it’s no place for part-time lovers!

I learned from my dad that change and experimentation are constants and important. You have to keep trying new things.

I don't really think about the audience much. I think of myself. Let me dig myself out of that one.

Boxing is rough. Even if you win, you get hurt.

Leaders show respect for people by giving them time.

It's fun working on the set... I usually work about 10 and a half hours a day, and I also study about five of those hours. It can be tiring, but it's fun!

How perilous it is to free a people who prefer slavery.

I put myself in the way of things happening, and they happened.