The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.

I don't need to argue here that the evil in the world proves that the universe is not designed, but only that there are no signs of benevolence that might have shown the hand of a designer.

Sometimes nature seems more beautiful than strictly necessary.

As you learn more and more about the irrelevance of human life to the general mechanism of the universe, the idea of an interested god, becomes increasingly implausible.

The whole history of the last thousands of years has been a history of religious persecutions and wars, pogroms, jihads, crusades. I find it all very regrettable, to say the least.

Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that, then I want out.

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