You accept the historical Jesus?

The scientist is activated by a wonder and awe before the mysterious comprehensibility of the universe which is yet finally beyond his grasp. In its profoundest depths it is inaccessible to man.

There is nothing divine about morality, it is a purely human affair.

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.

The theory must not contradict empirical facts.

We cannot get to where we dream of being tomorrow unless we change our thinking today.

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms.