There is great variation in brain power all the way from Einstien on one hand to Sarah Palin on the other.

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.

I told him I had once lost everything I had, too, and that I think that can be God’s way of building walls around us to force us to look up at Him.

Dreams and visions are important not only because of the energy and passion they generate but also because of their ability to create hope.

Be an instrument of peace, not a preacher of hate.

The beautiful illusion of fiction is that everything makes sense and that there was a purpose, that there was a point to it all. And that's the best possible lie because it may even be true.

Believe in love at first sight.

Build a company that idiots could run because eventually they will.

Vote for me and I will ensure that everyone gets enough to eat and a place to stay

Don't drag the engine, like an ignoramus, but bring wood and water and flame, like an engineer.

Love is too prone to trust. Would I could think My charges false and all too rashly made.

But our gusty emotions say to me that we have / Tasted heaven many times: these delicacies / Are left over from some larger party.