Rational argument can be defeated by refusing to argue rationally.

A theorist today is hardly considered respectable if he or she has not introduced at least one new particle for which there is no experimental evidence.

In science we don't have prophets. We have heroes, but not prophets.

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

It is positively spooky how the physicist finds the mathematician has been there before him or her.

I enjoy being at a meeting that doesn't start with an invocation!

The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.

Most scientists I know don't care enough about religion even to call themselves atheists.

As you learn more and more about the irrelevance of human life to the general mechanism of the universe, the idea of an interested god becomes increasingly implausible.

Science should be taught not to support religion and not to destroy religion. Science should be taught simply by ignoring religion.

In complexity, it is only simplicity that can be interesting.

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

The universe is an enormous direct product of representations of symmetry groups.

The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike.

Sometimes nature seems more beautiful than strictly necessary.

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

To me, Faith is not just a noun but also a verb

Jerry Falwell can go straight to hell - and I mean that in a Christian way.

Spirit is like the wind, in that we can't see it but can see its profound effects.