Professor Challenger, Conan Doyle's science hero, was a sort of irascible man constantly bellowing at people, so he was a little bit of a departure from both of those stereotypes.

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.

The only real limitation on your abilities is the level of your desires. If you want it badly enough, there are no limits on what you can achieve.

You're more mean-spirited than I remember you being.""It's this organic body. Hologram fur wasn't itchy.

I don´t know anyone who has a perfect family to start with. And I think that´s why we make up our own. regular weirdos together. I feel that way about my friends.

Age doesn't mean Maturity but Senescence

I'm always jotting things down on pieces of paper. I've got pieces of paper all over my house.

Love is on the verge of hate each time it stoops for pardon.

Form 1040 was chosen by the IRS because for every $50 you earn, you get 10 and they get 40.

The fear of health care changing is beyond belief. Like there's a way to make the system worse. Really?

It seemed to me that people do a rather good job of creating levels of hell all by themselves, and this was something worth writing about.

How can you do the right thing when you can't figure out what that is? When all you have before you are choices in various shades of wrong?