Our job in physics is to see things simply, to understand a great many complicated phenomena in a unified way, in terms of a few simple principles.

This is one of the great social functions of science - to free people from superstition

Quantum field theory, which was born just fifty years ago from the marriage of quantum mechanics with relativity, is a beautiful but not very robust child.

They felt that science would be corrosive to religious belief and they were worried about it. Damn it, I think they were right. It is corrosive to religious belief and it's a good thing.

The more we refine our understanding of God to make the concept plausible, the more it seems pointless.

The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike.

For good people to do evil things, it takes religion.