They felt that science would be corrosive to religious belief and they were worried about it. Damn it, I think they were right. It is corrosive to religious belief and it's a good thing.

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.

But beautiful girl above all beautiful girls, ' he wrote back, 'This is my home.

I can always say I led off for the New York Yankees. It's an amazing feeling.

The transistor was a small plastic unit that would take us from a world of static bricks piled on top of each other to a world where everything was interactive.

If our god's work is to be done in our time, we must do it ourselves.

Emotions arise in the place where your mind and body meet

One is entitled to say without qualification that the correlation between prior judicial experience and fitness for the Supreme Court is zero.

My family helped start [this country], we've been in political life ... since the 1690s, and I have a very possessive sense about this country.

Tim Kaine kind of gives the warmer, human face of the Democrats.

There is musick, even in the beauty and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument.

As artists, it's really important to take time to see what other art is happening and to know what's happening in the world.