همه‌چیز را بسنج؛ همواره باورهای خود را با واقعیات باز آزما، و آماده‌باش تا حتی عزیزترین باورهایت را هم که با واقعیت نمی‌خوانند کنار نهی. عقاید خود را… - Richard Dawkins

If there is only one Creator who made the tiger and the lamb, the cheetah and the gazelle, what is He playing at? Is he a sadist who enjoys spectator blood sports? ... Is He manoeuvring to maximise David Attenborough's television ratings?

For the first half of geological time our ancestors were bacteria. Most creatures still are bacteria, and each one of our trillions of cells is a colony of bacteria.

It is an article of passionate faith among "politically correct" biologists and anthropologists that brain size has no connection with intelligence; that intelligence has nothing to do with genes; and that genes are probably nasty fascist things anyway.