The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - that is why they invented hell.

Love is a little haven of refuge from the world.

Sir Arthur Eddington deduces religion from the fact that atoms do not obey the laws of mathematics. Sir James Jeans deduces it from the fact that they do.

Dora and I are now married, but just as happy as we were before.

It is not what the man of science believes that distinguishes him, but how and why he believes it. His beliefs are tentative, not dogmatic; they are based on evidence, not on authority or intuition.

Belief in God and a future life makes it possible to go through life with less of stoic courage than is needed by skeptics.

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.