After sleeping through a hundred million centuries, we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life.

If we say that religion is a virus, then why isn't science a virus?

Evolution is fundamentally hostile to religion.

I have never quite understood - and this is no doubt my failing - I never quite understood why you would read fiction to understand the human condition.

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

When we started out and we were talking about the origins of the universe and the physical constants, I provided what I thought were cogent arguments against a supernatural intelligent designer. But it does seem to me to be a worthy idea.

Such delusions of grandeur to think that a God with a hundred billion galaxies on his mind would give a tuppenny damn who you sleep with, or indeed whether you believe in him.