There was something built into the human brain by natural selection which was once useful, and which now manifests itself as religion.

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.

Life is a dilemma between living a lie and speaking one.

I regard Paris as a feast for the eyes, the senses and brain. It is a phenomenal city.

Only when you have crossed the river can you say that the crocodile has a lump on his snout.

Yet you would not drive a car with your mouth unless you are my mother-in-law.

Killing is unavoidable but is nothing to be proud of

All that I am my mother made me.

Even the slowest guy can go from first to third and help win a ballgame.

Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself

I like to think that I'm giving a voice to the silenced.

In life, as on the stage, it's not who I am but what I do that's the measure of my worth and the secret of my success. All the rest is showiness, arrogance and conceit.