Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

Life is a journey, but don't worry, you'll find a parking spot at the end.

One would suppose that the battle for religious liberty was won in the United States two hundred years ago. However, in the time since, and right now, powerful voices are always raised in favor of bigotry and thought control.

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death.

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!', but 'That's funny ...'

I do not fear computers. I fear lack of them.

Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, maybe once.

I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.

Well, I can type all day without getting tired. Response to a question as to which he preferred, women or writing.

When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn.

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket, a thumb to suck, a skirt to hold. What does the scientist have to offer in exchange? Uncertainty! Insecurity!

A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.

There is nothing frightening about an eternal dreamless sleep. Surely it is better than eternal torment in Hell and eternal boredom in Heaven.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.

If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God, and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul.

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.