"Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things."

"The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry."

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

"The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture."

"If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you."

"May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!"

"There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries to do something worthwhile, especially when it is new and different."

"I think 'ambitious' is one of those adjectives used for women in a derogatory way."