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

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

All animals are minor variations on a very particular theme.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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?

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

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.

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

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

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

Religious organisations have an automatic tax-free charitable status.

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

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

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

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

All life evolves by the differential survival of replicating entities.

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

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.

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think.

There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.

My interest in biology was pretty much always on the philosophical side.

Absolutist morality doesn't have to come from religion but usually does.

People believe the only alternative to randomness is intelligent design.

Evil is a miscellaneous collection of nasty things that nasty people do.

What matters is not the facts but how you discover and think about them.

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened

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