My thoughts, my beliefs, my feelings are all in my brain. My brain is going to rot.

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.

Consequences are not the spoiler that kills my dreams. Rather, they are the lessons that enhance my dreaming.

Those who work hard will succeed, While those who slack at their work will be in need

This is the worst thing about poisons and deadly sins - that we enjoy them.

True cultural connection is the Holy Grail for brands if they want to create an enduring emotional relationship with people.

Down inside we have a longing for God-what Pascal called "the vacuum which God left behind.

The music is not used repetitiously to create film atmosphere. It is, in fact, the leading character.

When I look up, I see people cashing in. I don't see heaven or saints or angels. I see people cashing in on every decent impulse and every human tragedy.

I got an excellent opportunity to learn and understand democratic values early on. And it shook me. This played a significant role in making me what I am.

I believe the American people are entitled to some straight talk when it comes to higher education funding.

Maybe Iraq will come back and become the dominant power among Arab countries. That seems to me as conceivable.