You believe that all humanity came from Adam and Eve, and humans have not evolved at all since. So tell me; between the two of them, which was black, which was white, and which was Asian?

We have sexual lust even though we know perfectly well that, because we're using contraception, it is not going to result in the propagation of our genes. That doesn't matter, because the lust was built into our brains at a time when there was no contraception.

The fact that somebody does good doesn't make their beliefs true.

[It] is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.

Science has taught us, against all intuition, that apparently solid things like crystals and rocks are really almost entirely composed of empty space. And the familiar illustration is the nucleus of an atom is a fly in the middle of a sports stadium, and the next atom is in the next sports stadium.

... you need more than luck to navigate successfully through a thousand sieves in succession.

In the case of Stalinism, people actually distorted science, because it was for the good of the Communist Party.