Go ahead and believe in God , if you like, but don't imagine that you have been given any grounds for such a belief by science.

Homunculi are bogeymen only if they duplicate entire the talents they are rung in to explain. If one can get a team or committee of relatively ignorant, narrow-minded, blind homunculi to produce the intelligent behaviour of the whole, this is progress.

The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.

In the long run I certainly hope information is the cure for fanaticism, but I am afraid information is more the cause than the cure.

Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.

The evidence for evolution pours in, not only from geology, paleontology, biogeography, and anatomy, but of course from molecular biology and every other branch of the life sciences.

Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct.