“A god who is capable of sending intelligible signals to millions of people simultaneously, and of receiving messages from all of them simultaneously, cannot be, whatever else he might be, simple. Such Bandwidth!”

Even those who do not, or cannot, avail themselves of a scientific education, choose to benefit from the technology that is made possible by the scientific education of others.

It is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane.

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are all born selfish.

Gravity is not a version of the truth. It is the truth. Anyone who doubts it is invited to jump out a tenth-storey window.

Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.

If there is a God, it’s going to be a whole lot bigger and a whole lot more incomprehensible than anything that any theologian of any religion has ever proposed.

Don’t ask God to cure cancer and world poverty. He’s too busy finding you a parking space and fixing the weather for your barbecue.

Even if it were true that evolution, or the teaching of evolution, encouraged immorality that would not imply that the theory of evolution was false.

Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.

When two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong.

Religion: Together we can find the cure.

It has become almost a cliché to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.

If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it.

Science is interesting, and if you don’t agree you can fuck off.

Chance is just a word expressing ignorance.

Evolution is not a genetically controlled distortion of one adult form into another; it is a genetically controlled alteration in a developmental program.

The equal toleration of all religions…is the same as atheism.

The person who follows the pursuit of reason unflinchingly toward its end will be atheistic or, at best, agnostic.

The New Atheists are not open or willing to go where the evidence leads, unless that evidence sustains their own naturalistic assumptions. They have covertly reduced all philosophical thought and deduction to– ironically-fait h!

Either God can do nothing to stop catastrophes like this, or he doesn’t care to, or he doesn’t exist. God is either impotent, evil, or imaginary. Take your pick, and choose wisely.

When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.

Atheism is an exercise in intellectual contempt.

As an atheist, I am angry that we live in a society in which the plain truth cannot be spoken without offending 90% of the population.

The atheist, by merely being in touch with reality, appears shamefully out of touch with the fantasy life of his neighbors.