Evolution tells us where we came from, not where we can go.

- Jerry A. Coyne

In religion, faith is a virtue. In science, faith is a vice.

- Jerry A. Coyne

Theology is the post hoc rationalization of what you want to believe.

- Jerry A. Coyne

The biogeographic evidence for evolution is now so powerful that I have never seen a creationist book, article, or lecture that has tried to refute i…

- Jerry A. Coyne

Faith is a padlock of the mind, and few keys can open it.

- Jerry A. Coyne

There is no horror, no amount of evil in the world, that a true believer can't rationalize as consistent with a loving God. It's the ultimate way of …

- Jerry A. Coyne

If the history of science shows us anything, it is that we get nowhere by labeling our ignorance “God”.

- Jerry A. Coyne

If the history of science teaches us anything, it is that what conquers our ignorance is research, not giving up and attributing our ignorance to the…

- Jerry A. Coyne

In the end theologians are jealous of science, for they are aware that it has greater authority than do their own ways of finding "truth": dogma, aut…

- Jerry A. Coyne