To recognize that nature has neither a preference for our species nor a bias against it takes only a little courage..

In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intol….

Unless you assume a God, the question of life's purpose is meaningless..

I would not exchange my freedom from old superstition, if I were to be burned at the stake next month, for all the peace and quiet of orthodoxy, if I….

Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness..

If we, each doing our own part, if we do good to others, if we meet there, doing good, and we go slowly, gently, little by little, we will make that ….

In the early 50s in the US, there was what was called McCarthyism and the only reason it succeeded was that there was no resistance to it. When they ….

Christ rode on an ass, but now asses ride on Christ..

So great was the preference given to sacred over profane learning that Christianity had been in existence fifteen hundred years, and had not produced….

There is so much wrong with the world. (tanta stat praedita culpa).

It is like confessing to a murder..

Government is contemptuous of true religion when it confiscates the taxes of Caesar to finance the things of God..

'Tis well averred, A scientific faith's absurd..

It takes five years for a willing person's mind to change. Have patience with yourself and others when treading in an area protected by a taboo..

Faith can remove a mountain, but doubt can put it back in place again.

Religion is a collective insanity..

It is a curiosity of human nature that lack of self-assurance seems to breed an exaggerated sense of power and mission..

The death of dogma is the birth of morality..

Atheism is a strange thing. Even the devils never fell into that vice..

I light candles. I meditate. And I don't believe in anything. By default I move simultaneously towards mysticism and atheism. It's not something that….

Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning..