Let us understand Darwinism so we can walk in the opposite direction when it comes to setting up society..

In a way, I think religion is to be admired for asking the right questions. I just think it's got the wrong answers..

There is an attitude in the culture that says that everybody is entitled to their opinion. You got to respect their opinion. No, you damn well haven'….

We've all been brought up with the view that religion has some kind of special privileged status. You're not allowed to criticise it..

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

The universe doesn't owe us condolence or consolation; it doesn't owe us a nice warm feeling inside..

Two religions cannot both be right, because they contradict each other, yet they can both be wrong..

No doubt soaring cathedrals, stirring music, moving stories and parables, help a bit. But by far the most important variable determining your religio….

I think from my point of view - I won't say it doesn't matter whether [Darwinian explanations] are right or wrong, it's just sufficient in some cases….

I detest 'Jingle Bells,' 'White Christmas,' 'Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer,' and the obscene spending bonanza that nowadays seems to occupy not just….

Natural selection is anything but random..

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

The psychologist Elizabeth Loftus has shown great courage, in the face of spiteful vested interests, in demonstrating how easy it is for people to co….

My untidy habits drive me to follow the slash-and-burn principle. Work on a virgin table until the mess becomes unbearable, then move on to a clean t….

If it suits [God] to be a deity that we must seek without being forced to, would it not have been sensible for him to use the mechanism of evolution ….

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

Luke [the gospel writer] screws up his dating by tactlessly mentioning events that historians are capable of independently checking. There was indeed….

I'm easily persuaded that a really good novelist who gets inside somebody else's head could be serving a valuable purpose. I enjoy satirical novels t….

Cloning may be good and it may be bad. Probably it's a bit of both. The question must not be greeted with reflex hysteria but decided quietly, soberl….

Anybody who objects to cloning on principle has to answer to all the identical twins in the world who might be insulted by the thought that there is ….

What I can't understand is why you can't see the extraordinary beauty of the idea that life started from nothing - that is such a staggering, elegant….