When I am dying, I should like my life taken out under general anaesthetic, exactly as if it were a diseased appendix.

I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.

...it is a telling fact that, the world over, the vast majority of children follow the religion of their parents rather than any of the other available religions.

Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.

There's this thing called being so open-minded your brains drop out.

Being dead will be no different from being unborn -- I shall be just as I was in the time of William the Conqueror or the dinosaurs or the trilobites. There is nothing to fear in that.

Religious faith not only lacks evidence, its independence from evidence is its pride and joy, shouted from the rooftops.