I think enormous harm is done by religion - not just in the name of religion, but actually by religion. ... Many people do simply awful things out of sincere religious belief, not using religion as a cover the way that Saddam Hussein may have done, but really because they believe that this is what God wants them to do, going all the way back to Abraham being willing to sacrifice Isaac because God told him to do that. Putting God ahead of humanity is a terrible thing.

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

Science doesn't make it impossible to believe in God, it just makes it possible not to believe in God

Elementary particles are terribly boring, which is one reason why we're so interested in them.

In complexity, it is only simplicity that can be interesting.

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

Most scientists I know don't care enough about religion even to call themselves atheists.