Daniel C. Dennett quotes:

You don't get to advertise all the good that your religion does without first scrupulously subtracting all the harm it does and considering seriously the question of whether some other religion, or no religion at all, does better.

The secret of happiness: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.

I think we should stop treating ["God works in mysterious ways"] as any kind of wisdom and recognize it as the transparently defensive propaganda that it is. A positive response might be, "Oh good! I love a mystery. Let's see if we can solve this one, too. Do you have any ideas?

People are afraid of being more ignorant than their childre

Problems in science are sometimes made easier by adding complications.

If I know better than you know what I am up to, it is only because I spend more time with myself than you do.