My mind is open to the most wonderful range of future possibilities, which I cannot even dream about.

I do think imagination is enormously valuable, and that children should be encouraged in their imagination. That's very true.

I need to learn not to bend over backwards to be nice to faith-heads. Give these people an inch and they take a league. I think, as I did when I wrote The God Delusion, that the Roman Catholic Church is a disgusting institution, the second most evil religion in the world.

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.

Science is the disinterested search for the objective truth about the material world.

Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong.

Science, as opposed to technology, does violence to common sense.