We don't need fossils - the case for evolution is watertight without them; so it is paradoxical to use gaps in the fossil record as though they were evidence against evolution

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.

Life could be horrible in the wrong trouser of time.

Because human nature never changes.

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.

Life might be easier if you give in a little, but it's better if you hold onto something so hard you can't give it up.

I'm all for in my production, creating really unique textures and sounds - for me that's what I love about music.

I would rather be in minority and be right, than in the majority and wrong.

Warren Buffet told me once and he said always follow your gut. When you have that gut feeling, you have to go with don't go back on it.

Honest people, knowledgeable people, really well-informed people can have very different views about what the right measures are on national security.

Revolution will free society of its afflictions, while science will free the individual of his.