"The Astonishing Hypothesis is that 'You,' your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no more than the behavior of a vast a…"

"The genetic material must be able to replicate itself."

"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance, but the illusion of knowledge."

"The Christian believer is like a tenant who is about to sign a lease on a flat when someone tells him that the owner of the flat does not exist."

"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change."