The God Delusion makes me embarrassed to be an atheist, and the McGraths show why.

Evolution is a religion. This was true of evolution in the beginning, and it is true of evolution still today.

We who cherish science should be careful to distinguish when we are doing science and when we are extrapolating from it

In other words, science tells us that Adam and Eve are fictions. That Saint Paul or Uncle Tom Cobley and all thought otherwise is irrelevant. They were wrong.

I mean, I think even God would agree with this at this point. God’s existence isn’t important. It’s what we do with what we’ve got that counts.

The definition of a philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black hat, which isn’t really there. And the definition of a theologian is he’s somebody who finds it.

Thomas Henri Huxley often preached tolerance, but in practice he could not wait to go after religion and religious people in the most scornful of terms.[Curb your enthusiasm, 2016]

Gossip has always been a problem. It is one of the most powerful, addictive behaviors there is. As long as the human race has had a common language they have used it to gossip.

my dearest agony let us be together, i am not seasoned for this solitude.

The reason most preaching is ignored today is that it deserves to be.

When people begin to understand that whatever they think and feel happens, then the psychic phenomena begin to rise, which is what's happening now.

I don't have any particular expertise-I've never been a banker or an investment banker. But I did see an evolution in the system that I thought was problematic.

Beware of the man who praises women's liberation; he is about to quit his job.

There is, in the end, the letting go.

I like doing personal films, after doing a bigger movie, I enjoy doing smaller, intimate films.

You think your congressman is working all day to get you a job? He may want to. He or she is probably not a bad person. They probably want to do the right thing. But they can't.

The Spirit Awards are great too, they'll say anything because they're not televised. Another great drinking night.