Blasphemy is a Victimless Crime.

People really, really hate their religion being criticized. It's as though you've said they had an ugly face; they seem to identify personally with it.

Being dead will be no different from being unborn -- I shall be just as I was in the time of William the Conqueror or the dinosaurs or the trilobites. There is nothing to fear in that.

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.

I am utterly fed up with the respect we have been brainwashed into bestowing upon religion.

I think that there are good things that happen and bad things that happen.

Some people find clarity threatening. They like muddle, confusion, obscurity. So when somebody does no more than speak clearly it sounds threatening.