The chicken is only an egg’s way for making another egg.

If children were taught to question and think through their beliefs, instead of being taught the superior virtue of faith without question, it is a good bet that there would be no suicide bombers.

Religion teaches the dangerous nonsense that death is not the end.

All the great religions have a place for awe, for ecstatic transport at the wonder and beauty of creation.

I am at a loss to reconcile the expensive and glossy production values of this book with the breathtaking inanity of the content.

No matter how much knowledge and wisdom you acquire during your life, not one jot will be passed on to your children by genetic means. Each new generation starts from scratch.

Let our tribute to the dead be a new resolve: to respect people for what they individually think, rather than respect groups for what they were collectively brought up to believe.