The Bible may be an arresting andpoetic work of fiction, but it is not the sort of book you should giveyour children to form their morals.

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.

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run the schools and the city.

You will find the greatest happiness in letting yourself be.

I have thought it my duty to exhibit things as they are, not as they ought to be.

True spirituality consists in living moment to moment by the grace of Jesus Christ.

Have pity on a dinosaur.

I don't give a score prediction, but I am a defensive guy, so I'll definitely be looking forward to a defensive game.

Only one thing can stop Luis Suarez from being voted as the Players' Player of the Year... his fellow players.

Life is but an endless series of experiments.

I think there is a commitment on the part of the White House to racial justice in this country, and no ambiguity.