When I am dying, I should like my life taken out under general anaesthetic, exactly as if it were a diseased appendix.

Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.

I don't think God is an explanation at all. It's simply redescribing the problem. We are trying to understand how we have got a complicated world, and we have an explanation in terms of a slightly simpler world, and we explain that in terms of a slightly simpler world and it all hangs together down to an ultimately simple world. Now, God is not an explanation of that kind. God himself cannot be simple if he has power to do all the things he is supposed to do.

It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.

All the world’s Muslims have fewer Nobel Prizes than Trinity College, Cambridge. They did great things in the Middle Ages, though.

I respect you too much to respect your ridiculous ideas.

Ideally, I'd like everybody to be secular.