“Our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it. And we can make it very wonderful indeed.”

Science has its own magic: the magic of reality.

Let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.

If the history-deniers who doubt the fact of evolution are ignorant of biology, those who think the world began less than ten thousand years ago are worst than ignorant, they are the deluded to the point of perversity.

The idea of a divine creator belittles the elegant reality of the universe.

We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do.

We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

The chicken is only an egg’s way for making another egg.

Why, I can’t help wondering, is God thought to need such ferocious defence? One might have supposed him amply capable of looking after himself.

Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private revelation.

Evolution could so easily be disproved if just a single fossil turned up in the wrong date order. Evolution has passed this test with flying colours.

The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation.

Let children learn about different faiths, let them notice their incompatibility, and let them draw their own conclusions about the consequences of that incompatibility.

Religious faith, is a state of mind, that leads people to believe in something, it doesn’t matter what, without a whisper of doubt, or a whiff of evidence, and believe so strongly in some cases, that they are prepare to kill and die for it, without the need for further justification.

Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It’s a sort of crime against childhood.

I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.

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.

I’m very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn’t choose.

Why do you have to choose what type of woman you are? Why do you have to label yourself anything?

If you love two people at the same time, choose the second one, because if you really loved the first, you wouldn’t have fallen for the second.

If they let me choose between you and the dog, I’ll choose the dog.

Choose well.

Life is just a game in which the cards are facing down. I’m in the world where things are taken, never given how long they choose to love you will never be your decision.

Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.