Evolution has no long-term goal. There is no long-distance target, no final perfection to serve as a criterion for selection, although human vanity cherishes the absurd notion that our species is the final goal of evolution.

I think I would abolish schools which systematically inculcate sectarian beliefs.

I personally would consider it to be an honour to be fossilized.

Faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.

God's existence is either true or not. But calling it a scientific question implies that the tools of science can provide the answer.

If there is a God, it's going to be a whole lot bigger and a whole lot more incomprehensible than anything that any theologian of any religion has ever proposed.

We are machines built by DNA whose purpose is to make more copies of the same DNA. ... This is exactly what we are for. We are machines for propagating DNA, and the propagation of DNA is a self-sustaining process. It is every living object's sole reason for living.