You can legally lie about the real world to your heart's content, but until some human being is materially damaged, nobody will complain.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
For me, the level at which natural selection causes the phenomenon of adaptation is the level of the replicator - the gene.
I once wrote that anybody who believes the world is only 6,000 years old is either ignorant, stupid, insane or wicked.
Astrology is an aesthetic affront. It cheapens astronomy, like using Beethoven for commercial jingles.
The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.
Don't kid yourself that you're going to live again after you're dead; you're not. Make the most of the one life you've got. Live it to the full.
Science has taught us, against all intuition, that apparently solid things like crystals and rocks are really almost entirely composed of empty space. And the familiar illustration is the nucleus of...