For millions of years, on average, one species became extinct every century.... We are now heaving more than a thousand different species of animals and plants off the planet every year.

WOKING (vb.) To enter the kitchen with the precise determination to perform something only to forget what it is just before you do it.

I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.

Obviously somebody had been appallingly incompetent and he hoped to God it wasn't him.

It {Darwin's theory of evolution] was a concept of such stunning simplicity, but it gave rise, naturally, to all of the infinite and baffling complexity of life. The awe it inspired in me made the awe that people talk about in respect of religious experience seem, frankly, silly beside it. I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.

Don't you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn't developed all those filters which prevent us from seeing things that we don't expect to see.

"Does God know he [exists]?" "Of course he does. Otherwise, you could not have asked the question, and I could not have answered."