Science does not deny religion, it just offers a simpler alternative.

I'd say I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid He might hear me.

Not to take this web of dualities as a sign we are on the right track would be a bit like believing that God put fossils into the rocks in order to mislead Darwin about the evolution of life.

Maxwell is the physicist's physicist.

One does not have to appeal to God to set the initial conditions for the creation of the universe, but if one does He would have to act through the laws of physics.

Not to leave planet Earth would be like castaways on a desert island not trying to escape...Sending humans to other planets ... will shape the future of the human race in ways we don't yet understand, and may determine whether we have any future at all.

The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like.