Something pretty mysterious had to give rise to the origin of the universe.

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.

So the I.F. is spying on Earth.""Just as a mother spies on her children at play in the yard.""Good to know you're looking out for us, Mummy.

He has not shown the special interest in reading that we should like to see but he likes shop work. George H. W. Bush's parents on his Andover application

The beauty of the past belongs to the past.

I've come to believe that how we choose to live with pain, or injustice, or death....is the true measure of the Divine within us.

A system that works for one person won't be perfect for another... Individuality is a major part of expanding knowledge.

The pain is when the dreams change, as they do, as they must.

He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

I'm kind of a hermit. Left to my own devices, I won't submerge myself in anything further afield than the driveway.

Look to the fields white unto harvest; pray for the fields; prepare for the fields; go to the fields or support those who go.

Having the courage to take the steps we always wanted to take is the only way of showing that we trust in God.