My feeling is, quite simply, that if there is a God, He has done such a bad job that he isn't worth discussing.

Intuition is the art, peculiar to the human mind, of working out the correct answer from data that is, in itself, incomplete or even, perhaps, misleading.

A neat and orderly laboratory is unlikely. It is, after all, so much a place of false starts and multiple attempts.

I wanted to be a psychological engineer, but we lacked the facilities, so I did the next best thing - I went into politics. It's practically the same thing.

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

Any planet is 'Earth' to those that live on it.

However much the creationist leaders might hammer away at their scientific and philosophical points, they would be helpless and a laughing-stock if that were all they had. It is religion that recruits their squadrons. Tens of millions of Americans, who neither know nor understand the actual arguments for - of even against - evolution, march in the army of the night, their Bibles held high. And they are a strong and frightening force, impervious to, and immunized against, the feeble lance of mere reason.