...when two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong.

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.

MY ⓈⓉⓎⓁⒺ is, My Presentation➟ &My Attituⅾe is, Your Reflection

Most things that I think about not talking about, ultimately I decide to talk about, and I feel better.

Every great work of art ... is a celebration, an act of insubordination against the betrayals, horrors and infidelities of life.

I think, in common with a lot of novelists, I wasn't the most athletic guy at school.

The trade-off between freedom and security, so often proposed so seductively, very often leads to the loss of both.

When you keep God in first place, He will take you to places you've never dreamed of

There is a phase in the life of every copy editor when she is obsessed with hyphens.

Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.

We have nothing to hide and it should be clear for the international community whose fault it was that the last closed European border was not open.