Go ahead and believe in God , if you like, but don't imagine that you have been given any grounds for such a belief by science.

I think that there are no forces on this planet more dangerous to us all than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism, of all the species: Protestantism, Catholicism, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism, as well as countless smaller infections. Is there a conflict between science and religion here? There most certainly is.

In short, we need to recover the courage we celebrate in our heroes, and in particular, the courage to tolerate, for the sake of a free society, a level of risk we hardly ever imagined in the past.

There's no polite way to say to somebody (religious followers) 'Do you realize you've wasted your life?

Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.

We should get used to the idea that we'll probably never be able to find - and confirm - a good explanation of the ultimate origin of the universe, though I see no reason to believe that we can't press much further on this question than we have managed to date.

There are no forces on this planet more dangerous to all of us than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism.