Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.

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.

Kindness is an act to transform lives.

You’re saying the gods don’t have free will.” “The power to make mistakes, ” Penny said. “Only we have that. Mortals.

I'll be the first to admit it, the life I'm leading is basically a joke. I should probably be cooler about it, but I can't fake it, you know?

To understand ourself, we must understand our "selves," or the parts of us that motivate our thoughts, decisions, and behaviors.

I get older I get more cantankerous, but June [Hillary] gets a bit more cantankerous, too.

Shaw's plays are the price we pay for Shaw's prefaces.

I would never want to see myself viewed as beating the drums of war, ... but I would rather live with that image than look into the mirror and see a member of Congress who failed to do his duty.

When you start a collection, you have to push yourself to limits that may make you uncomfortable.

Love could be fractured and serve different purposes, and that intense love could be divided, between people just as easily as between moments of time.

If you want to know why some kids can wait and others can't, then you've got to think like they think.