We should be agnostic about those things for which there is no evidence. We should not hold beliefs merely because they gratify our desires for afterlife, immortality, heaven, hell, etc.

The sense of spiritual relief which comes from rejecting the idea of God as a supernatural being is enormous.

The human race will be the cancer of the planet.

Darwinism removed the whole idea of God as the creator from the sphere of rational discussion.

It is easier to believe that there was nothing before there was something than that there was something before there was nothing.

Evolution: The Modern Synthesis.

Evolution is nothing but matter become conscious of itself.

Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Evolution... is the most powerful and the most comprehensive idea that has ever arisen on Earth.

...everything in psychosocial evolution which can properly be called advance, or progress, or improvement, is due directionaly to the increase or improvement of knowledge.

It's what we do, we continue on. Yet, what is the point? There is nothing ahead of us when there is nothing left of us.

You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt. When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half. I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican.

Gorillas would be less scary with bunny ears. Actually, what isn't less scary with bunny ears? Osama Bin Laden with bunny ears. Ha! So cute.

Is not short paine well borne, that brings long ease,And layes the soul to sleepe in quiet grave?Sleepe after toyle, port after stormie seas,Ease after warre, death after life does greatly please.

To denounce does not free the self from what it hates, any more than ignoring the past shuts off its influence.

I live for opening doors for the young generation of creators. If we do nothing else with our success, let's open up some doors.

I know that you that you may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. If you accept that you have been defeated, you give power to the force that is trying to defeat you.

Good movies make you care, make you believe in possibilities again.

When I'm pushing myself, testing myself, that's when I'm happiest. That's when the rewards are greatest.

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins.