I figure that if God actually does exist, he is big enough to understand an honest difference of opinion.

After years of finding mathematics easy, I finally reached integral calculus and came up against a barrier. I realized that this was as far as I could go, and to this day I have never successfully gone beyond it in any but the most superficial way.

Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.

Every religion seems like a fantasy to outsiders, but as holy truth to those of the faith.

It's your fiction that interests me. Your studies of the interplay of human motives and emotion.

Even as a youngster, though, I could not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presented danger, the solution was ignorance. To me, it always seemed that the solution had to be wisdom. You did not refuse to look at danger, rather you learned how to handle it safely.

Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don't know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.