Quantum field theory, which was born just fifty years ago from the marriage of quantum mechanics with relativity, is a beautiful but not very robust child.

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.

You must give up the life you planned in order to have the life that is waiting for you.

They just want to be part of the moment. A moment that's much larger than them, and even larger than us.

The aspiration toward freedom is the most essentially human of all human manifestations.

That moment when the person actually dictates the way I do the portrait is when the intimacy arrives.

I'm a preservationist, I believe in preserving history intact, but I also enjoy the technological advances which have been made.

My mother was a wonderful, wonderful woman with a lovely voice who hated housework, hated cooking even more and loved her children. She was always arranging church activities such as a bazaar.

American advertisers rely on 'essentially illogical' approaches to determine their advertising budgets.

Nicole was always there with her door open, her arms open, her ears open - just what you need.

God wants your life. Not one hour a week, not 10% of your income, He wants you.

Sleep is perhaps the only among life's great pleasures which need not be of short duration.