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

The genetic code is not a binary code as in computers, nor an eight-level code as in some telephone systems, but a quaternary code with four symbols. The machine code of the genes is uncannily computerlike.

Two religions cannot both be right, because they contradict each other, yet they can both be wrong.

All qualified physicists, biologists, cosmologists and geologists agree, on the basis of massive, mutually corroborating evidence, that the earth's age is at least four billion years.

It is universally accepted that an admission of atheism would be instant political suicide for any (U.S.) presidential candidate.

The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.

The argument from improbability, properly deployed, comes close to proving that God does not exist.