If a healing technique is demonstrated to have curative properties in properly controlled double-blind trials, it ceases to be alternative. It simply, as Diamond explains, becomes medicine.

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.

This, the language of deception, we both understand. We were born to it, along with the curses.

We think that time is changing, but that may not be true. Everything else is changing and time is standing still and watching.

Remember always where the dreaming ends and the being begins. Draw a line for everything you care about and then step over it.

When I go to the Boston Marathon now, I have wet shoulders—women fall into my arms crying. They're weeping for joy because running has changed their lives. They feel they can do anything.

Don't stop chasing your dreams, because dreams do come true.

Why should this war in the West be fought for the restoration of Poland? The Poland of the Versailles Treaty will never rise again.

Running water is perceived as being filled with vitality.

Positivity doesn't just change the contents of your mind...It widens the span of possibilities that you see.

You don't want the office to be a completely relaxing place. You want it to be a vibrant place.

Love is the lotus, lust is the mud the lotus arises out of.