Religion is a distraction from true education.

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.

Billions of dollars worth of research knowledge lie dormant at American universities waiting for the right disruptor to come along and create a business.

Only diligence will give you wealth

There is nothing more valuable in life than God

I am much more open about categories of gender, and my feminism has been about women's safety from violence, increased literacy, decreased poverty and more equality.

He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.

Just give the brain the information and it will figure it out.

I have definitely reached the same level as Madonna in terms of sales. I'm really pleased about that.

At 6 years old I knew there was no place for me.

I have said that Texas is a state of mind, but I think it is more than that. It is a mystique closely approximating a religion.

To be able to see into a friends' dream is a dream in itself. -Doctor Kōsaku Tokita (Paprika)