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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.

- Richard Dawkins, The Root of All Evil?

If God wanted to forgive our sins, why not just forgive them? Who’s God trying to impress? Presumably himself, since he is judge and jury, as well as execution victim.

- Richard Dawkins, The Root of All Evil?

Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.

- Richard Dawkins, The Root of All Evil?

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

- Isaac Asimov (via ringman)

There’s only two kinds of people in the world. There’s women and there’s men.

- (500) Days of Summer

Scientists have calculated that the chance of anything so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one. But magicians have calculated that million to one chances crop up nine times out of ten.

- Terry Pratchett, Mort

A good song should make you tap your feet and get with your girl.
A great song should destroy cops and set fire to the suburbs.

- Tom Morello

I don’t guess. As a scientist I reach conclusions based on observation and experimentation. Although, as I’m saying this, it occurs to me that you may have been employing a rhetorical device, rendering my response moot.

- Sheldon Cooper, The Big Bang Theory