"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 belief that we have immortal souls is a superstition."

"If you are not a little bit mad, you will never discover anything new."

"It is always a good thing to be slightly eccentric."

"An honest man, armed with all the knowledge available to us now, could only state that in some sense, the origin of life appears at the moment to be almost a miracle, so many are the conditions which …"