Sometimes nature seems more beautiful than strictly necessary.

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.

Rational argument can be defeated by refusing to argue rationally.

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.

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.

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

Life is just too short to go quail hunting with the wrong people.

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.

I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming.