Atheism is not a religion. Abstinence is not a sex position.

[Jay] Gould sets up an artificial wall between the two worldviews that doesn't exist in my life.

The body is a survival machine programmed to propagate the genes that reside inside it.

Explaining is a difficult art. You can explain something so that your reader understands the words; and you can explain something so that the reader feels it in the marrow of his bones. To do the latter, it sometimes isn't enough to lay the evidence before the reader in a dispassionate way. You have to become an advocate and use the tricks of the advocate's trade.

You don't believe that the Earth is round only if you're an astronaut. You don't believe Napoleon existed only if you're a historian. You believe these things because they're facts, proved by evidence.

The world and the universe is an extremely beautiful place, and the more we understand about it the more beautiful does it appear.

Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.