I think one of the great historical contributions of science is to weaken the hold of religion. That's a good thing.

On balance the moral influence of religion has been awful.

The more comprehensible the universe becomes the more pointless it seems.

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

All logical arguments can be defeated by the simple refusal to reason logically

It was one time when people thought the value of the fine structure constant was important. Now of course it's still important, of course, as a practical matter,but we now know that the value it has is a function, that in any fundamental theory you derive the fine structure constant as a function of all sorts of mass ratios and so on and it's not really that fundamental.

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