I respect you too much to respect your ridiculous ideas.

I'm not much given to straight, irony-free hero-worship.

I'm fond of science fiction. But not all science fiction.

What is the purpose of the universe?" is a silly question.

Offense is what people take when they can't take argument.

'What is the purpose of the universe?' is a silly question.

Atheism is not a religion. Abstinence is not a sex position.

All animals are minor variations on a very particular theme.

Pantheism is sexed-up atheism. Deism is watered-down theism.

The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.

I can handle heckling on evolution because it's my own field.

Einstein was adamant in rejecting all ideas of a personal god.

I really, really would like to see religion go away altogether.

Once a viral program gets started, there is nothing to stop it.

In Britain, Christianity is dying. Islam, unfortunately, isn't.

I personally would consider it to be an honour to be fossilized.

Myths are fun, as long as you don't confuse them with the truth.

Science, as opposed to technology, does violence to common sense.

Science is interesting, and if you don't agree, you can fvck off.

The fact that somebody does good doesn't make their beliefs true.

We animals are the most complicated things in the known universe.

All religious beliefs seem weird to people not brought up in them.

Having a debate with a modern Christian is like punching a sponge.

By being outside of nature, God is also outside of space and time.

I'm a sucker for nice religious leaders. I fall for it every time.

[Invading Iraq] will unite the entire Arab world against the West.

What is illiberal is not persuasion but imposition of one's views.

Religion teaches the dangerous nonsense that death is not the end.

I get the feeling more and more that religion is being left behind.

Do humans have a different moral significance than cows in general?

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

If we say that religion is a virus, then why isn't science a virus?

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

DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.

Words are not trivial. They matter because they raise consciousness.

Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.

There's this thing called being so open-minded your brains drop out.

Religion is the most inflammatory enemy-labelling device in history.

Natural selection will not remove ignorance from future generations.

The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.

Religious organisations have an automatic tax-free charitable status.

I'm pretty sure there is some genetic component towards intelligence.

Mutation is random; natural selection is the very opposite of random.

Yesterday's dangerous idea is today's orthodoxy and tomorrow's cliché.

I shall not make an argument ad hominem. My argument is ad bullshitem.

George Bush is a catastrophe for the world. And a dream for Bin Laden.

All life evolves by the differential survival of replicating entities.

My personal feeling is that understanding evolution led me to atheism.

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

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

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