[The writers of the holy books] did not even know the earth revolves around the sun. Why are we listening?

We should provide the meaning of the universe in the meaning of our own lives. So I think science doesn't necessarily have to get in the way of kind of spiritual fulfillment.

The universe does not care what we want.

We live at a very special time . . . the only time when we can observationally verify that we live at a very special time!

Most people don't base their morality on religion in spite what they say. If you ask people, "If you didn't believe in God, would you go out and kill your neighbour?" Most people will say, "No".

Neutrinos alone, among all the known particles, have ethereal properties that are striking and romantic enough both to have inspired a poem by John Updike and to have sent teams of scientists deep underground for 50 years to build huge science-fiction-like contraptions to unravel their mysteries.

The fact is that people would rather cling when they're afraid of something to a priori beliefs than rather open their minds about it.