I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world. Votes: 30
Publishers like a good buzz, and negative responses sell books just as well as positive ones. Votes: 8
I love romantic poetry. Votes: 2
The whole idea of creating saints, it's pure 'Monty Python.' They have to clock up two miracles. Votes: 0
Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence. Votes: 0
Teachers who help to open young minds perform a duty which is as near sacred as I will admit. Votes: 0
The universe doesn't owe us condolence or consolation; it doesn't owe us a nice warm feeling inside. Votes: 0
Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one. Votes: 0
People like to trace their ancestry. Votes: 0
Blasphemy is a Victimless Crime. Votes: 0
I do feel visceral revulsion at the burka because for me it is a symbol of the oppression of women. Votes: 0
The best scientists can do is fail to disprove things while pointing to how hard they tried Votes: 0
People say I'm shrill and strident. Votes: 0
Faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate. Votes: 0
When brains get sufficiently big, presumably, as human brains have, consciousness seems to emerge. Votes: 0
I'm sure Obama is an atheist; I'm sure Kennedy was an atheist, but I doubt if Pope Frank is. Votes: 0
There's clearly a lot of Ludditism, and you see it in all the hysteria about every scientific story. Votes: 0
How can you take seriously someone who likes to believe something because he finds it 'comforting'? Votes: 0
I have often said that I am a passionate Darwinian when it comes to explaining why we exist. Votes: 0
... you need more than luck to navigate successfully through a thousand sieves in succession. Votes: 0
[If] there is mercy in nature, it is accidental. Nature is neither kind nor cruel but indifferent. Votes: 0
[Jay] Gould sets up an artificial wall between the two worldviews that doesn't exist in my life. Votes: 0
Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don't see you jumping out of buildings. Votes: 0
Evolution never looks to the future. Votes: 0
Evolution normally does not come to a halt, but constantly 'tracks' the changing environment. Votes: 0
Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that's also the definition of delusion. Votes: 0
Faith is not the opposite of reason. Votes: 0
Have they discovered evolution yet? Votes: 0
Human beings are just gene machines. Votes: 0
I am agnostic only to the extent that I am agnostic about fairies at the bottom of the garden Votes: 0
I am utterly fed up with the respect we have been brainwashed into bestowing upon religion. Votes: 0
I do like Philip Pullman.And that's an exception because Philip Pullman's books allow magic. Votes: 0
If it is solely an evolutionary convenience, there is really no such thing as good or evil. Votes: 0
I'm sure Obama is an atheist, I'm sure Kennedy was an atheist, but I doubt if Pope Frank is. Votes: 0
In the beginning was simplicity. Votes: 0
It is all too easy to mistake passion that can change its mind for fundamentalism, which never will. Votes: 0
Life results from the non-random survival of randomly varying replicators. The watchmaker is blind Votes: 0
Our subjective judgment of what seems like a good bet is irrelevant to what is actually a good bet. Votes: 0
Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It's a sort of crime against childhood. Votes: 0
Science is the poetry of reality. Votes: 0
The argument from improbability, properly deployed, comes close to proving that God does not exist. Votes: 0
The river of my title is a river of DNA, a river of information, not a river of bones and tissues Votes: 0
The thing that defines a species is that all members have the same addressing system for their DNA. Votes: 0
There could be something incredibly grand and incomprehensible and beyond our present understanding. Votes: 0
Two religions cannot both be right, because they contradict each other, yet they can both be wrong. Votes: 0
We are a very, very unusual species. Votes: 0