Segregation has no place in the education system.

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.

When we look back at life we realize no true moment defined us, but in fact the events leading up to that moment.

You need to choose your association according to your vision.

Politics is more difficult than physics.

We are generally forced to choose one way or the other of distancing ourselves from Kant. I suppose I tend to choose the irreligious way. But I regret that Kant's path has not been followed.

I think I was technically uncredited as Local #1, because there were three of us. But I had the most lines [in My Sweet Charlie].

Economics is like gravity: Ignore it and you will be in for some rude surprises.

There is no bad in good.

Taste is a matter of ignorance. If you know what you are tasting, you don't have to taste.

One of the best ways countries can combat poverty is to use development assistance to promote a growing private sector, in which the poor can fully participate.

The insignificant, the empty, is usually the loud; and after the manner of a drum, is louder even because of its emptiness.