The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.

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.

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.

Even though Paul knew farewells were inevitable, he still formed deep relationships.

To me, freedom entitles you to do something, not to not do something.

A perfect method of adding drama to life is to wait until the deadline looms large.

Behold this day. It is yours to make.

Anyone can achieve something important. Contrary to popular belief, the key is not hard work, but finding the right thing to achieve.

I still find it almost impossible to relax for more than one day at a time.

It is a trite but true definition that examples work more forcibly on the mind than precepts.

The trouble with government as it is, is that it doesn't represent the people. It controls them.

I like my clothes tight enough to show I'm a woman, but loose enough to show I'm a lady.

If you stand too close to a painting - all you see are patches of color, if you stand too far back, you can't see any of the detail.