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.

It is almost irrestible for humans to believe that we have some special relation to the universe, that human life is not just a more-or-less farcical outcome of a chain of accidents reaching back to the first three minutes, but that we were somehow built in from the beginning.

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

The fact that Newton and Michael Faraday and other scientists of the past were deeply religious shows that religious skepticism is not a prejudice that governed science from the beginning, but a lesson that has been learned through centuries of experience in the study of nature.

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

The universe is an enormous direct product of representations of symmetry groups.

Any possible universe could be explained as the work of some sort of designer. Even a universe that is completely chaotic...could be supposed to have been designed by an idiot.