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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I'll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it. The wilder and more ridiculous something is, however, the firmer and more solid the evidence will have to be.

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

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.

Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.

True literacy is becoming an arcane art and the United States is steadily dumbing down.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.