With respect to those meanings of 'human' that are relevant to the morality of abortion, any fetus is less human than an adult pig.

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.

When all hope is gone and your back is against the wall, ‘Pray.’ Ask God to guide you and he will take good care of you.

The greatest investment you can do in your life is in gaining time.

You're making an admirable go of it, but in the end, loyalty is about taking aside.

Energy spent to worry is a total lose. It is a down payment you’ve made without any return”.

Intelligence is enormously sexy.

Dill?" Mm?" Why do you reckon Boo Radleys never run off?" Dill sighed a long sigh and turned away from me. Maybe he doesn't have anywhere to run off to

It's hard to take your life so seriously when you can see it all at once.

Take a good look at yourself before you criticise another, for what you see wrong in them, will also be a lesson for you.

I've always assumed he'd be around to be, you know, yelled at and taken for granted. And of course I was wrong. Nobody's going to put up with that forever.

It's important to have masculine energy around your child.