The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.

People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.

The theist is persuaded that while nothing that contradicts science is likely to be true, still nothing that stops with science can be the whole truth.

Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.

There is a story of an Oxford student who once remarked, "I despise all Americans, but have never met one I didn't like."

If there is a purpose in life at all, there must be a purpose in suffering and in dying. But no man can tell another what this purpose is. Each must find out for himself, and must accept the responsibility that his answer prescribes. If he succeeds he will continue to grow in spite of all indignities.

The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer. Indeed the measure of our intellectual maturity, one philosopher suggests, is our capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better problems.