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

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

“More generally, as I shall repeat in Chapter 8, one of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us that it is a virtue to be satisfied with not understanding.”

“And the beauty of the anthropic principle is that it tells us, against all intuition, that a chemical model need only predict that life will arise on one planet in a billion billion to give us a good and entirely satisfying explanation for the presence of life here.”

“Blasphemy is a Victimless Crime.”

“Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.”

“The Bible may be an arresting andpoetic work of fiction, but it is not the sort of book you should giveyour children to form their morals.”