To an honest judge, the alleged convergence between religion and science is a shallow, empty, hollow, spin-doctored sham.

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.

If during the day, a person did not do anything about his purpose and calling, he did nothing at all

Nothing conquers the chaos around me like the calm assurance that I am at peace with God.

For when ideas flutter in haze, we collaborate without notice and collect them as butterflies only to set them free into the world.

Women may not have it easy, but we are given a fairer chance to reach for the top.

We can't be in the business of carting fresh air around the country.

I took Instagram off my phone! I took it off because I found I was looking at it too much.

Reasonable men are the best dictionaries of conversation.

The atheist must abandon his defensive positions, take up the cudgels and go forward, rather than into the retreat of apathy.

I believe I have a sunny disposition, and am not naturally a grouch. It takes a lot of optimism, after all, to be a traveler.

Apple does great products, but at the end of the day we think consumers want choice, consumers want openness.