Religions are not imaginative, not poetic, not soulful. On the contrary, they are parochial, small-minded, niggardly with the human imagination, precisely where science is generous.

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.

Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.

Work and Life are not separate spheres. They are integratedmoments in life that happen throughout the day.

The suffering of the rich is among the sweetest pleasures of the poor.

Positive thinking can be contagious. Being surrounded by winners helps you develop into a winner.

What's really important for me is, as an old man, I'm known by my own generation and the next generation know me, too.

If I see any injustice done, I have a big enough mouth and the position to open up about it.

Have friends, not for the sake of receiving, but of giving.

The armies of the day have chased the army of the night, Heaven and earth are filled with purity and light.

I'm free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally.

Or heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.