Science is the poetry of reality.

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.

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.

Don't ask God to cure cancer and world poverty. He's too busy finding you a parking space and fixing the weather for your barbecue.

Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament not of income.

The sixth grade made my life successful by preparing me for the seventh and the seventh by preparing me for the eighth and so on. May it do the same for you.

The ear disapproves but tolerates certain musical pieces; transfer them into the domain of our nose, and we will be forced to flee.

Don't tell me this town 'aint got no heart

Singers come and go; the music business waxes and wanes. The blues are popular and unpopular, often at the same time.

I really don't have favorites; I'm just a fan of movies, period.

I didn't understand 3-D in the fifties and I can't say I get it now either. I just don't see what the big deal is.

I incline to Cain's heresy," he used to say quaintly: "I let my brother go to the devil in his own way.

Oh, I always think everyone feels left out.

I think it's important to make sure you learn and understand the business that you are in, but it's also important to not let that get in the way of your main focus.