Each step is not too improbable for us to countenance, but when you add them up cumulatively over millions of years, you get these monsters of improbability, like the human brain and the rain forest. It should warn us against ever again assuming that because something is complicated, God must have done it.

It can be consoling to think your children are in heaven. You have got to understand that that doesn't make it true. Many people cannot understand that distinction.

I am not absolutely positive there is no god. Only in the sense that I'm not absolutely positive there is no large china teapot in orbit in the solar system.

If a healing technique is demonstrated to have curative properties in properly controlled double-blind trials, it ceases to be alternative. It simply, as Diamond explains, becomes medicine.

The universe is a strange and wondrous place. The truth is quite odd enough to need no help from pseudoscientific charlatans.

It is a remarkable coincidence that almost everyone has the same religion as their parents and it always just so happens they're the right religion.

Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.