“When I am dying, I should like my life taken out under general anaesthetic, exactly as if it were a diseased appendix.”

Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority.

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.

If there is a human moral to be drawn, it is that we must teach our children altruism, for we cannot expect it to be part of their biological nature.

We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born.

Creationists eagerly seek a gap in present-day knowledge or understanding. If an apparent gap is found, it is assumed that God, by default, must fill it.

Creationists eagerly seek a gap in present-day knowledge or understanding. If an apparent gap is found, it is assumed that God, by default, must fill it.

Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.

Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.

I don’t give a damn for anybody’s opinion, I only care about the facts. So I’m not an enthusiast for diversity of opinion where factual matters are concerned.

I don’t give a damn for anybody’s opinion, I only care about the facts. So I’m not an enthusiast for diversity of opinion where factual matters are concerned.

Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it.

Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that’s also the definition of delusion.

The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.

Perhaps consciousness arises when the brain’s simulation of the world becomes so complex that it must include a model of itself.

We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.

The die is cast.

I would rather die standing up to live life on my knees.

Once I was the sun. The sun that burnt so bright it lit up everyone’s sky. The sun ran out of fuel. The sun that died under its own weight. The sun that sucks on the light of others now. The sun is now a black hole, itself.

I know i say i don’t care, but if you were on the verge of dying i’d give you my life.

I solemnly assure you that I will not die as a Hindu.

Do something that even after you die, people smile for you.

Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December; And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.