Even if there were no actual evidence in favor of the Darwinian theory, we should still be justified in preferring it over all rival theories.

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.

I canalmost understandwhypeopleleapfrombridges.

I am he As you are me And we are all together.

I've made 122 movies, and I daresay there's a picture of mine showing somewhere in the world every day.

I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the greatness of African-American music.

Miracles do happen. You must believe this. No matter what else you believe about life, you must believe in miracles.

I think sometimes when you look long term, you kind of forget to take care of what you have to take care of on a daily basis. We're into short-term goals more than long-term goals.

No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace.

The child who concentrates is immensely happy

I think The Big Picture was such a huge shift from my second record.

Destruction of the environment is not only rational; it's exactly what you're taught to do in college.