PZ Myers Quotes

If you can't forgive yourself, how can you expect me to?

Rational people have better things to do than grant unwarranted credibility to every half-assed delusion.

Although intelligence tests are usually speed tests for the sake of convenience, it is debatable whether speed has any rightful place in the basic concept of intelligence.

Enlightenment is lightening up.

It's amazing how much detail Catholics will go into documenting why people shouldn't do the things that they all do anyway.

We shouldn't be gratuitously obnoxious, we should be purposefully obnoxious.

With my writing, what I want to do is humanize the young people I write about.

I'm basically a sexless geek. Look at me, I have pasty-white skin, I have acne scars and I'm five-foot-nothing. Does that sound like a real sexual dynamo to you?

Sometimes when things get hard, we tend to set our sights on what's hard, that difficult thing that keeps us upset, and we turn our back on our strengths.

religion is to misogyny as disease is to misery - not the sole cause, but a significant contributor

The hypothesis of the supernatural and/or a supreme being is vague, unfounded, and inapplicable in any practical fashion

... much seemingly chance variation in human behavior is not due to chance; it is in fact the logical result of a few basic, observable differences in mental functioning.

Words were never invented to fully explain the peaceful aura that surrounds us when we are in communion with minds of the same thoughts.

The end is never worth the beginning.

The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy nor Roman nor an empire. Discuss.

I had a blast, but I still wonder sometimes why they saw me as the perfect guy for this strange character.

I play the ukulele. I have a great group of friends, and we do things like have battles of the bands - me sometimes on ukulele, but mostly on drums.

Very clever people are often very clever at creating rationalisations for insane beliefs.

Canada is the essence of not being. Not English, not American, it is the mathematic of not being. And a subtle flavour - we're more like celery as a flavour.

While it is nice to be discovered, it's much better to discover yourself.

My dad loved to laugh. He was very funny and very silly.

For me, everything definitely comes from music.

The visions of the INFJs tend to concern human welfare, and their contributions are likely to be made independent of a mass movement.

They take away your shoelaces and your belt so you can’t kill yourself no matter how bad it is. I guess making you live is part of the punishment.

When the light has sharply faded And you have lost your way Let another's love guide you It can turn blackest night into day.

It's never my intent to be controversial but I don't shy away from it.

What separates great jazz musicians from average ones is Taste. Those who have taste consistently choose notes, tempos, timbres and voicings that seduce and satisfy attentive listeners.

I like people who take responsibility for their lives.

We are not princes of the earth, we are the descendants of worms, and any nobility must be earned.

And of course death can't be conquered...but oh, the battle can be glorious.

Here's the plan. We get the warhead and we hold the world ransom for... ONE MILLION DOLLARS!

Common sense - so rare it's a god damn superpower

Uh oh, this guy needs coffee and croolers stat.

Once I turned 35, I got the bonus of some wisdom and began to accept life on its own terms.

Like pride, blind optimism may go before a fall.

If anyone could look into my head See or feel the dread that has captured Me or see within this sad, unhappy brain They would only turn away Turn away.

Yeah, that's funny, huh?...Something hurts you real bad and you get used to it. Like being hurt becomes part of who you are.

Women have to be the biggest champions in the world of other women's choices.

Every child has his own beauty, her own talents. Ikarus Jackson can fly through the air; I want kids to find their own set of wings and soar with him.

Europe to me is young people trying to appear middle-aged and middle-aged people trying to appear young.

Sure, there's no 'i' in team, but there is an 'm' and an 'e'.

Exponential growth in access to the Internet, satellite television and radio, cell phones, and P.D.A.'s means that breaking news now reaches virtually every corner of the globe.

I once thought I had mono for an entire year. It turned out I was just really bored.

Given time, given the number of prisoners now that we're interrogating, I'm confident that we're going to find weapons of mass destruction.

I think when I have kids and grandchildren I will be very proud to have them watch this movie.

Satisfaction isn't so much getting what you want as wanting what you have.

Group interaction tends to amplify people's initial inclinations

Each time I think there is no place lower to go, I find that there is at least one place that will mess you up worse than you were.

We all think we're different, but when it comes around, we end up needing the same things. Somebody to love us. Somebody to respect us.

We are into the opening stages of a human-caused biotic holocaust-a wholesale elimination of species-that could leave the planet impoverished for at least five million years.