Religion is the most inflammatory enemy-labelling device in history.

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.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

After I came back [to China], there was still a long period of time when I felt I had nothing to do.

Only bad writers think that their work is really good.

If you are working from your inbox, you are working on other people’s priorities.

In America, we have the greatest businesspeople in the world. We have to use them to negotiate our trade deals.

I am very scared of wasps; my cousin was stung in the eye once.

I definitely feel like, as a singer, I've been able to transition into acting because I always saw them in the same vein. It's all about connecting and telling a story.

While I am impulsive in many areas of my life, marriage is not one of them.

When you change your NOW story, you instantly change your past story and your future story.

Hollywood likes to put actors in boxes, and it likes to put Asian actors in really small boxes.