In a poll taken in 1998, only 7 percent of the members of the US National Academy of Sciences, the elite of American scientists, said they believed in a personal god.

Selling eternal life is an unbeatable business, with no customers ever asking for their money back after the goods are not delivered.

Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings.

The problem is that people think faith is something to be admired. In fact, faith means you believe in something for which you have no evidence.

Proof is not required to believe [in a god]. But some sign, some evidence is needed. None exists... Find some inkling of evidence. There is none.

The belief in supernatural forces remains to this day a yoke on the neck of humanity, but at least Thales made it possible, for those of us who wish it, to be free of that yoke.

Saying the universe is eternal simply is saying that it has no beginning or end, not that it had a beginning an infinite time ago

Nature is capable of building complex structures by processes of self-organization; simplicity begets complexity.

Fifteen years of skepticism has done more for me than 20 years of force-fed religion and 30 years of indifference in between.

Any attempt at understanding humanity must include an explanation of the hold that supernatural belief continues to have on most of the human race.

Thought, without the data on which to structure that thought, leads nowhere.

absolute power is corrupting

As important as it is to work very hard on your dream, it is even more important to ensure that you are working with the right plan.

My mother always says that love is like a snakebite, a venom slowly spreading through your veins.

Ironically, the people who do not need Israel are gradually taking over Israel, and they're actually pushing out people who so need it.

I think one should do what seems right. And if what seems right involves danger...well, one must risk the danger.

The body can endure compromise and the mind can be seduced by it. Only the heart protests. The heart. Carbon-based primitive in a silicon world.

I think a good entrepreneur has a very clear grasp of what the goal is, an unwavering sense of the goal, an utterly agile approach of getting there.

Guitar solos, to me, should be a really articulate way to make fun of guitar solos.

At times on quiet waters one does not speak aloud but only in whispers, for then all noise is sacrilege.

Beg, borrow, steal, Africa needs to build infrastructure.