Darwin gives courage to the rest of science that we shall end up understanding literally everything, springing from almost nothing - a thought extremely hard to comprehend and believe.

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.

So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness.

Whatever makes an impression on the heart seems lovely in the eye.

In putting off what one has to do, one runs the risk of never being able to do it.

The life of a coquette is one constant lie; and the only rule by which you can form any correct judgment of them is that they are never what they seem.

Nobody told me I was a child prodigy.

The one thing I've learned is that stuttering in public is never as bad as I fear it will be.

The more you close the doors, the less free your ideas can come, and they come from up here and come through you.

I like being outside and working with the elements. The elemental aspects of it. The physicality of it.

Currently I'm not a crazy ex-girlfriend, but I can't promise I won't be one again.

I love making movies and hope to write my own screenplay someday and do some producing and be behind-the-scenes as well.