We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.

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 you are good life is good.

If I want help I need to pay for it~ and to pay for it~ I need more money.

My grandfather said, "When you become senile, you won't know it."

There must be a happy medium somewhere between being totally informed and blissfully unaware.

This is a tragic world we live in.

My significance is found in pointing to Someone far more significant.

The fact that wealthy people or people from privileged backgrounds may wind up in a violent terrorist organization is not new.

Creativity is your best makeup skill, don't be afraid to experiment.

It is from our enemies that we often gain excellent maxims, and are frequently surprised into reason by their mistakes.

The people have got to trust in themselves.