My interest in biology was pretty much always on the philosophical side.

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.

People often lose their names. Names fall into holes or get eaten by wild animals. Sometimes they’re carried away by the wind.

...changing one's own behavior is a much more promising strategy than insisting on change from the other.

Come in, Martise." Silhara's voice was almost sibilant in the darkness as he tagged on her hand. "There are no soul eaters here." No, she thought. Only heart thieves.

Idiosyncrasy and vicissitude had combined to stamp Sergeant Troy as an exceptional being.

If I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the hideous end!

The people I have no feeling for are professional killers. But I count that man no worse than a governor who won't commute a death sentence because it's unpolitical.

Dispassion and humility lead to spiritual knowledge. Without them no one will see the Lord.

I just tell you, I'm not a big FEMA fan.

I was an ugly baby. On my birth certificate there was a listing for Probable Cause.

I am eating more. I think you do eat more when you're working out. And you want to eat healthily, so it's good all round.