...it is curiosity, initiative, originality, and the ruthless application of honesty that count in research- much more than feats of logic and memory alone.

The sense of spiritual relief which comes from rejecting the idea of God as a supernatural being is enormous.

The human race will be the cancer of the planet.

Darwinism removed the whole idea of God as the creator from the sphere of rational discussion.

It is easier to believe that there was nothing before there was something than that there was something before there was nothing.

Evolution: The Modern Synthesis.

Evolution is nothing but matter become conscious of itself.

Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Evolution... is the most powerful and the most comprehensive idea that has ever arisen on Earth.

...everything in psychosocial evolution which can properly be called advance, or progress, or improvement, is due directionaly to the increase or improvement of knowledge.

Whatever crimes this man had committed, they weren't as egregious as his inflated self-image.

He who does not get fun and enjoyment out of every day ... needs to reorganize his life.

When I was little, I grew up in a place called Hertfordshire, which is just near London, but out in the country, and I visited Pakistan in the summers to go and see my family on my dad's side.

Either we are a sovereign state, or we are not! As long as we are not, we have no business in a community of sovereign states.

If you want to bring an end to long-standing conflict, you have to be prepared to compromise.

I was horribly depressed, and I felt like I had failed as a band leader, a professional, as a person.

What a man calls his 'conscience' is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.

The little jihad is over, and now we have the bigger jihad - the bigger battle is achieving security and economic growth

Who you think you are will always be frightened of change. But it doesn't make any difference to who you truly are.

Nobody who cooks does it with full hair and makeup in front of a TV camera.