In other words, science tells us that Adam and Eve are fictions. That Saint Paul or Uncle Tom Cobley and all thought otherwise is irrelevant. They were wrong.

Evolution is a religion. This was true of evolution in the beginning, and it is true of evolution still today.

The God Delusion makes me embarrassed to be an atheist, and the McGraths show why.

We who cherish science should be careful to distinguish when we are doing science and when we are extrapolating from it

I mean, I think even God would agree with this at this point. God’s existence isn’t important. It’s what we do with what we’ve got that counts.

The definition of a philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black hat, which isn’t really there. And the definition of a theologian is he’s somebody who finds it.

Thomas Henri Huxley often preached tolerance, but in practice he could not wait to go after religion and religious people in the most scornful of terms.[Curb your enthusiasm, 2016]

What are you" -Mac "I don't follow" -Jericho "You dropped 30 feet in that warehouse. You should have broken something. What are you?" -Mac "A man with a rope." -Jericho

Jesus Christ gives strength.

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

Selecting a stroke is like selecting a wife. To each his own.

How little is required for pleasure! The sound of a bagpipe - without music, life would be an error.

Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.

Thoughts will change and shift just like the wind and the water when you're on the boat; thoughts are no different than anything else.

Being hurt by someone you really cared about, it makes me want to make them regret ever hurting my heart. Best way of doing that? Success. Get ready for it.

I never for a day gave up listening to the songs of our birds, or watching their peculiar habits, or delineating them in the best way I could.

Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating. Youngsters need good models more than they need critics. It's one of a parent's greatest responsibilities and opportunities.