Real life seeks the gentle slopes at the back of Mount Improbable, while creationists are blind to all but the daunting precipice at the front. - Richard Dawkins

"به قول لوئیس بونوئل، فیلم‌ساز شهیر اسپانیایی، "خدا و میهن تیم شکست‌ناپذیری را تشکیل می‌دهند که همه‌ی رکورد‌های سرکوب و خونریزی را می‌شکند.

The individual selectionist would admit that groups do indeed die out, and that whether or not a group goes extinct may be influenced by the behaviour of the individuals in that group. He might even admit that if only the individuals in a group had the gift of foresight they could see that in the long run their own best interests lay in restraining their selfish greed, to prevent the destruction of the whole group. How many times must this have been said in recent years to the working people of Britain? But group extinction is a slow process compared with the rapid cut and thrust of individual competition. Even while the group is going slowly and inexorably downhill, selfish individuals prosper in the short term at the expense of altruists. The citizens of Britain may or may not be blessed with foresight, but evolution is blind to the future.

Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It’s a sort of crime against childhood.