We who cherish science should be careful to distinguish when we are doing science and when we are extrapolating from it

Evolution is a religion. This was true of evolution in the beginning, and it is true of evolution still today.

The God Delusion makes me embarrassed to be an atheist, and the McGraths show why.

In other words, science tells us that Adam and Eve are fictions. That Saint Paul or Uncle Tom Cobley and all thought otherwise is irrelevant. They were wrong.

I mean, I think even God would agree with this at this point. God’s existence isn’t important. It’s what we do with what we’ve got that counts.

The definition of a philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black hat, which isn’t really there. And the definition of a theologian is he’s somebody who finds it.

Thomas Henri Huxley often preached tolerance, but in practice he could not wait to go after religion and religious people in the most scornful of terms.[Curb your enthusiasm, 2016]

Birth and death - what could be more monstrous than that? We like to deceive ourselves and call it wondrous and beautiful and majestic, but it's freakish, let's face it.

... Once a penguin finds its perfect other penguin, they stay together pretty much forever.

Of all the remedies it has pleased almighty God to give man to relieve his suffering, none is so universal and so efficacious as opium.

Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

It is a fearful mistake for us to neglect the study of the Bible to investigate theories that are misleading, diverting minds from the words of Christ to fallacies of human production.

I always enjoy Oslo. It's a beautiful city, especially on a cold winter day.

When you are in the American Idol bubble, a lot of contestants want to go as far as they can and wish to be on point with ready-to-go songs.

The world exists for the sake of kindness.

Harry Patch didn't get enough recognition. Jerry Garcia got too much.

Our stay-put behavior reflects our view that the stock market serves as a relocation center at which money is moved from the active to the patient.