[Scientific humanism is] the only worldview compatible with science's growing knowledge of the real world and the laws of nature.

You teach me, I forget. You show me, I remember. You involve me, I understand.

There is no better high than discovery.

People would rather believe than know.

I will argue that every scrap of biological diversity is priceless, to be learned and cherished, and never to be surrendered without a struggle.

Very often ambition and entrepreneurial drive, in combination, beat brilliance.

They travel long distances to stroll along the seashore, for reasons they can't put into words.

Human beings were made for music. Its thrill and rapture are picked up almost immediately by little children

The best way to live in this real world is to free ourselves of demons and tribal gods.

Social intelligence was therefore always at a high premium. A sharp sense of empathy can make a huge difference, and with it in an ability to manipulate, to gain cooperation, and to deceive.

[E]very major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.

That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.

An average person with average talent, ambition and education can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society, if that person has clear, focused goals.

The world is always greater than your desires

There is no life after death, so offer kindness to all, not in the next life but now

Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband.

Virtue its own reward? Alas! And what a poor one as a rule! Be virtuous and life will pass Like one long term of Sunday School.

I wasn't dyslexic, I was just very slow. I passed my time daydreaming.

Meanwhile the Adversary of God and man, Satan with thoughts inflamed of highest design, Puts on swift wings, and towards the gates of hell Explores his solitary flight.

Sometime during the many millions of years that have elapsed since mammalian faunas came into existence, some sort of island crossed from West Africa to South America.

Within every setback or obstacle or disadvantage there is the seed of an equal or opposite or greater advantage or benefit.