Our job in physics is to see things simply, to understand a great many complicated phenomena in a unified way, in terms of a few simple principles.

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.

Live today with joy. Don't wait for tomorrow. Tomorrow may never come.

The less versatile you are, the better you have to be at what you do well.

You should have fun when you're acting. That's when magic happens.

Against destiny I fulfilled my duty. Uselessly? No, for I fulfilled it.

It doesn't matter whether you're the king of a country or... a fabulous Beatle; it's what's inside that counts.

But if you aren't any religion, how are you going to know if you should join the Y or the Jewish Community Center?

Each second is a second you can make a new choice, a better choice, a healthy choice, a present choice.

Once you develop the practice of smiling, you may not need a reminder. You will smile as soon as you hear a bird singing or see the sunlight streaming through the window.

Do we soon forget the things we cannot see?

I believe, along with many others, that you must first ask for what you want before you can have it.