If you don't know anything about computers, just remember that they are machines that do exactly what you tell them but often surprise you in the result.

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 felt so skinless at times! Things hit me so hard!

I do not see why man should not be as cruel as nature

It’s better not to know so much about what things mean or how they might be interpreted or you’ll be too afraid to let things keep happening.

The cross of the Cruxifixion without the cross of the Resurrection is the symbol of a mutilated Christianity.

Every morning when I'm thrashing around on the floor doing my solid hour of heavy exercises I'm not really doing that for anyone but myself. It makes me feel good.

Tallulah [Bankhead] is always skating on thin ice. Everyone wants to be there when it breaks.

The police force cannot be completely independent of the executive government.

There's too many people in seats of power who just haven't got a clue what they're doing. They're bean counters, and it just pisses me off because consequently our kids go to see this crap movie.

A distribution is just if it arises from another just distribution by legitimate means.

At twilight time the smog makes a rainbow.