When I sign books, I get lines of people and what they usually say is: "Thank you. You have changed my life." I am really moved by that.

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.

The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveler, who takes a rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way

I have not tried to write the history of that language, but rather the archaeology of that silence.

To teach vain Wits that Science little known, T' admire Superior Sense, and doubt their own!

I'm not a good businessman and I don't promote myself particularly well. It's best I don't talk to anybody lest I alienate myself.

Oppression makes wise men mad; but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of fools.

If you treat your beta-testers as if they're your most valuable resource, they will respond by becoming your most valuable resource.

That American Taliban kid Johnny Walker was indicted today. Ten counts of terrorism. He could get 5 life sentences. In Taliban terms, that's 360 virgins.

Everything the Beats stood for was the opposite of the dominant culture today.

Science doesn't make it impossible to believe in God, it just makes it possible not to believe in God

You never know whether something will be good.