Public sharing is an important part of science.

I like to think 'The God Delusion' is a humorous book. I think, actually, it's full of laughs. And people who describe it as a polarizing book or as an aggressive book, it's just that very often they haven't read it.

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

We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.

And the beauty of the anthropic principle is that it tells us, against all intuition, that a chemical model need only predict that life will arise on one planet in a billion billion to give us a good and entirely satisfying explanation for the presence of life here.

We have to find our own purposes in life, which are not derived directly from our scientific history.

Pantheism is sexed-up atheism. Deism is watered-down theism.