We have seen that living things are too improbable and too beautifully 'designed' to have come into existence by chance.

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.

Knowing when to fight is just as important as knowing how.

The wisest men follow their own direction.

The United Nations offers international legitimacy in what we might do.

Fischer was a master of clarity and a king of artful positioning. His opponents would see where he was going but were powerless to stop him

All neurotics seek the religious

Men!" I said. "You all a bunch of chauvinist morons" Stephanie Plum - Ten Big Ones

As soon as you start talking about Scouting, there's an immediate connection and brotherhood.

There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.

Those who would be called tyrants cannot be called free men.

Fashion is an expression of what you're feeling.