In life, people will take you at your own reckoning.

Self-education is a continuing source of pleasure to me, for the more I know, the fuller my life is and the better I appreciate my own existence

It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.

When I die I won't go to heaven or hell; there will just be nothingness.

Tens of millions of Americans who neither know or understand the actual arguments for, or even against, evolution, march in the Army of the Night with their Bibles held high

Happiness is doing it rotten your own way.

All evil is good become cancerous.