I can understand your aversion to the use of the term 'religion' to describe an emotional and psychological attitude which shows itself most clearly in Spinoza... I have not found a better expression than 'religious' for the trust in the rational nature of reality that is, at least to a certain extent, accessible to human reason.

It is impossible to get out of a problem by using the same kind of thinking that it took to get into it.

The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it Intuition or what you will, the solution comes to you and you don't know how or why.

A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing.

Jesus is too colossal for the pen of phrasemongers, however artful. No man can dispose of Christianity with a bon mot

Nuclear power is one hell of a way to boil water

Except in mathematics, the shortest distance between point A and point B is seldom a straight line. I don't believe in mathematics.