My advice is to go for the messes - that's where the action is.

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.

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

It is impossible to credit one gender with every good and perfect gift without slighting the other. That’s what extreme diversity does to us.

I thought I would be a sports announcer. All I was was a curious kid who wanted to be on the radio.

It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part.

She 's adorned Amply that in her husband's eye looks lovely,- The truest mirror that an honest wife Can see her beauty in.

The only skill that will be important in the 21st century is the skill of learning new skills.Everythi ng else will become obsolete over time.

What is the problem? We now have aeroplanes which can take them back quicker than the ships used by their ancestors.

I don't have a driving desire to be all encompassing and world powerful or anything.

Surrender to your own self, of which everything is an expression.

Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it; not hard enough and it flies away.