The body is a survival machine programmed to propagate the genes that reside inside it.

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.

Without our ancestors we would not be.

God has given us all our unique story. It's not one that flows easily or pretty, but the story is ours! Find it and treasure it...

Kaku, the aamti is excellent. Did you put ghee in the daal when it was boiling?

I have no great faith in political arithmetic, and I mean not to warrant the exactness of either of these computations.

Sometimes things work out, sometimes they don't. I never know how successful a movie is going to be - when you make a movie you're always hoping for the best.

Morale is the state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope.

The truth is you can acquire any quality you want by acting as though you already have it.

Temptation is a suggested short cut to the realization of the highest at which I aim - not towards what I understand as evil, but towards what I understand as good.

We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.

Direct not him whose way himself will choose; 'Tis breath not lack'st, and that breath wilt thou lose.