If there is a God that has special plans for humans, then He has taken very great pains to hide His concern for us. To me it would seem impolite if not impious to bother such a God with our prayers.

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

A physicist friend of mine once said that in facing death, he drew some consolation from the reflection that he would never again have to look up the word "hermeneutics" in the dictionary.

It does not matter whether you win or lose, what matters is whether I win or lose!

Science doesn't make it impossible to believe in God, it just makes it possible not to believe in God

All logical arguments can be defeated by the simple refusal to reason logically

I think one of the great historical contributions of science is to weaken the hold of religion. That's a good thing.

Anything that we scientists can do to weaken the hold of religion, should be done and may, in fact, in the end, be our greatest contribution to civilization.

This is one of the great social functions of science - to free people from superstition

The whole history of the last thousands of years has been a history of religious persecutions and wars, pogroms, jihads, crusades. I find it all very regrettable, to say the least.

For good people to do evil things, it takes religion.

There are two types of spirits

There is no forgiveness in nature.

We really only have two choices. Play it safe, or take a chance. For me, pulling back because of fear has always made me feel worse.

Bless the Maker and His water. Bless the coming and going of Him. May His passage cleanse the world. May He keep the world for His people.

People think about autism as something with kids. Well, those kids grow up.

A friend in need needs a friend, indeed.

No one can cross the boundary into another -- for the simple reason that no one can gain access to himself

In Jamaica, you're never very far away from people who don't have very much, and in Wilmette, pretty much everybody had a lot.

As a player, I like playing as much cricket as possible, irrelevant of the format.

I'ma continue to make records, continue to make hits, continue to be what I am, legendary.