People like to trace their ancestry.

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 let my love for myself grow infinitely. I understand that loving myself is emotionally healthy and necessary to my well-being.

Historians are interested in ideas not only because they influence societies, but because they reveal the societies that give rise to them.

An institution rooted in slavery cannot be the voice of our people.

But in Ward 9 the air had a real quality, it clamped itself over your face like a pad of cotton wool, soaked through with the sweet chloroform of utter sadness. - Ward 9

Every man must get to heaven his own way.

If you tell the truth about how you're feeling, it becomes funny.

Franchot Tone is nuttier than a fruitcake, so don't let the genteel frosting fool you.

God's justice and love are one. Infinite justice must be infinite love. Justice is but another sign of love.

The self-sacrificing, servant aspect of the Christian life has many parallels to parenthood.

Man is driven to create; I know I really love to create things. And while I'm not good at painting, drawing, or music, I can write software.