[Alternative medicine is defined as] that set of practices that cannot be tested, refuse to be tested or consistently fail tests.

Religion has been a powerful weapon in the hands of governments, in the hands of priests, in the hands of kings who have used it as a weapon to keep down the populace. It is a wonderful way of disciplining people and making them do what you want, to tell them that if they don't do what you want they will, for example, go to Hell.

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.

My passion is for scientific truth. I don't much care about good and evil. ... I care about what's true.

We animals are the most complicated things in the known universe.

What are all of us but self-reproducing robots? We have been put together by our genes and what we do is roam the world looking for a way to sustain ourselves and ultimately produce another robot child.

The river of my title is a river of DNA, a river of information, not a river of bones and tissues