bad things, like good things don't happen any more often than they ought to by chance. the universe has no mind, no feelings, and no personality, so it doesn't do things in order to either hurt or please you. bad things happen because things happen.

Faith is not the opposite of reason.

The thing that defines a species is that all members have the same addressing system for their DNA.

We cannot prove that there is no God, but we can safely conclude the He is very, very improbable indeed.

If you set out in a spaceship to find the one planet in the galaxy that has life, the odds against your finding it would be so great that the task would be indistinguishable, in practice, from impossible.

[Invading Iraq] will unite the entire Arab world against the West.

Not only is science corrosive to religion, but religion is corrosive to science. It teaches people to be satisfied with trivial non-explanations and blinds them to the wonderful real explanations that we have within our grasp.