If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life. All that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

It is the same with people as it is with riding a bike. Only when moving can one comfortably maintain one's balance.

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

I urge a willingness to reserve a place in rational science for non-rational wonder.

The war is won, but the peace is not.

I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves. Neither can I nor would I want to conceive of an individual that survives his physical death; let feeble souls, from fear or absurd egoism, cherish such thoughts. I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life and with the awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the existing world, together with the devoted striving to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the Reason that manifests itself in nature.