Matthew and Luke handle the problem differently, by deciding that Jesus must have been born in Bethlehem after all. But they get him there by different routes.

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.

Learn more. Love more. Laugh more. Live more.

It had all seemed as inevitable as sunset. Instead it was the beauty of the sun glinting upon the scythe.

Your calling is buried in your background on earth

Drooling over an African figure that I could never have, I feasted my eyes uponthe swaying mounds of my fellow African sisters.

If I Believe in the Wish, I must believe I can loose it

My predecessor taxed wealthy, successful people at a higher rate than ever before. And what happened? They left. And what came of it? Did unemployment drop? No.

What we do today is more important than what we plan to do in the future.

I have made a lot of mistakes falling in love, and regretted most of them, but never the potatoes that went with them.

The flute is not an instrument that has a good moral effect - it is too exciting.

See that your difference makes a difference.