It does not matter whether you win or lose, what matters is whether I win or lose!

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.

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

How strange it would be if the final theory were to be discovered in our lifetimes! The discovery of the final laws of nature will mark a discontinuity in human intellectual history, the sharpest that has occurred since the beginning of modern science in the seventeenth century. Can we now imagine what that would be like?

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

Our mistake is not that we take our theories too seriously, but that we do not take them seriously enough.

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.