Such a bandwidth! God, who may not have a brain made of neurons, or a CPU made of silicon, but if he has the powers attributed to him he must have something far more elaborately and non-randomly constructed than the largest brain or the largest computer we know.

They are in you and me; they created us, body and mind; and their preservation is the ultimate rationale for our existence. They have come a long way, those replicators. Now they go by the name of genes, and we are their survival machines.

It is quite true that many scientists, many physicists, maintain that the physical constants, the half dozen or so numbers that physicists have to simply assume in order to derive the rest of their understanding ... have to be assumed. You can't provide a rationale for why those numbers are there. Physicists have calculated that if any of these numbers was a little bit different, the universe as we know it wouldn't exist.

Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don't see you jumping out of buildings.

American political opportunities are loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.

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

You can't understand European history at all other than through religion, or English literature either if you can't recognise biblical allusions.