Science is the poetry of reality.

There's no point of having faith if you have evidence.

Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born

I respect you too much to respect your ridiculous ideas.

The history of science has been one long series of violent brainstorms, as successive generations have come to terms with increasing levels of queerness in the universe.

Suppose that there's a gene that makes you gay if you were bottle-fed but that has some completely different effect if you were breast-fed. So in the days before bottles were invented that gene would not have manifested itself as gay behavior, but now that bottles are common it can do so.

I do like Philip Pullman.And that's an exception because Philip Pullman's books allow magic.