The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.

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.

So I put up with bad behavior in the name of loving the way I thought you were supposed to love.

Those who speak of progression but are afraid of change are self-repressed and therefore unable to reach any further than their eyes can already see.

I wish I was friends with things, " he said at last, "but I'm not. I never had anything to be friends with, and I can't bear people.

Misery and poverty of a nation is associated with the conscious of its people not leaders.

Stretch an unwavering tenacity when facing bad to worse attitudes.

The only thing I really, really want is for the U.S. to win again. Just to win another team gold. And, of course I would really want to win an all-around gold.

People aren't going to support an artist just because they have an audio file. They have to feel a real connection.

The end is here, and you don't want be here. You are the best in the world at something, and you know you are not going to be that great at anything else.

Some other natural rights... [have] not yet entered into any declaration of rights.

Will I, succeed, paranoid from the weed and hocus pocus, try to focus but I can't see.