There could be something incredibly grand and incomprehensible and beyond our present understanding.

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.

This night has no beginning and no end. It will last forever in the Blue Moon's memories. Bless us, lovers, Mother Moon, if we will never meet again.

When you face yourself, you face the truth of who you are.

The moral world is as little exempt as the physical world from the law of ceaseless change of perpetual flux.

The Dove, on silver pinions, winged her peaceful way.

The reality of any place is what its people remember of it.

A song is a meaningful thing.

Men's giving can only be to a certain extent: but God's is without limit.

The child who concentrates is immensely happy

As the love of the heavens makes us heavenly, the love of virtue virtuous, so doth the love of the world make one become worldly.

There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrate to some stroke of the imagination.