Who will say with confidence that sexual abuse is more permanently damaging to children than threatening them with the eternal and unquenchable fires of hell?

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.

Love is everything. Nothing else but love can define the destiny of humanity.

Don't accept your dog's admiration as conslusive evidence that your are wonderful.

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

For young girls, whom I meet a lot when I travel around the country, it will be a big thing. It will really show them that there's no post in Denmark that a girl can't aspire to.

Man's wisdom is his best friend folly his worst enemy.

If you want to shine like the sun, first burn like the sun.

According to a new study, Hawaii is the happiest place in America to live. And I thought it was just a great place to pretend you were born in.

There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.

The woman who knows and fulfils her duty realizes her dignified status.

I am proud only of those days that pass in undivided tenderness.