Words are memes that can be pronounced.

Problems in science are sometimes made easier by adding complications.

You can't get through seminary and come out believing in God!

Has it ever occurred to you how lucky you are to be alive? More than 99 percent of all the creatures that have ever lived have died without progeny, but not a single one of your ancestors falls into that group! ... Not a single one of your ancestors, all the way back to the bacteria, succumbed to predation before reproducing, or lost out in the competition for a mate.

Churches have given us great treasures such as music and architecture. Whether that pays for the harm they have done is another matter.

The earth has grown a nervous system, and it's us.

I listen to all these complaints about rudeness and intemperateness, and the opinion that I come to is that there is no polite way of asking somebody: have you considered the possibility that your entire life has been devoted to a delusion? But that’s a good question to ask. Of course we should ask that question and of course it’s going to offend people. Tough.