False beliefs can be every bit as consoling as true ones, right up until the moment of disillusionment..

To illustrate the vain conceit that the universe must be somehow pre-ordained for us, because we are so well-suited to live in it, he [Douglas Adams]….

If I were God wanting to make a human being, I would do it by a more direct way rather than by evolution. Why deliberately set it up in the one way w….

We have to find our own purposes in life, which are not derived directly from our scientific history..

We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us - through our brains, our symbolic culture and o….

To me, the right approach is to say we are profoundly ignorant of these matters. We need to work on them. But to suddenly say the answer is God - it'….

I think we certainly benefit from social institutions which encourage us towards moral behavior. It's very important to have law. It's very important….

Along with William Shakespeare and Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin is Britain's greatest gift to the world. He was our greatest thinker..

This person should have been aborted years ago..

Like computer viruses, successful mind viruses will tend to be hard for their victims to detect. If you are the victim of one, the chances are that ….

Suffering is a byproduct of evolution by natural selection, an inevitable consequence that may worry us in our more sympathetic moments but cannot be….

Some physicists solve that problem of the necessity of finely tuned physical constants ... by invoking the anthropic principle, saying, well, here we….

Charles Darwin made arguably the greatest discovery any human has ever made. He was a man of great persistence. He wasn't probably a natural genius, ….

My computer is a very complex gadget and it was designed by many designers, so why must the universe have only a single designer and not many designe….

Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume disco….

The bitter hatreds that now poison Middle Eastern politics are rooted in the real or perceived wrong of the setting up of a Jewish State in an Islami….

Each step is not too improbable for us to countenance, but when you add them up cumulatively over millions of years, you get these monsters of improb….

I have no explanation for complex biological design. All I know is that God isn't a good explanation, so we must wait and hope that somebody comes up….

Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things..

I think more than 20 percent of Nobel Prizes have been won by Jews..

The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in the schools of America..