“Man created God in his image: intolerant, sexist, homophobic and violent.”

“Hope never abandons you; you abandon it.”

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

“Many of the great world religions teach that God demands a particular faith and form of worship. It should not be surprising that SOME of the people who take these teachings seriously should sincerely regard these divine commands as incomparably more important than any merely secular virtues like tolerance or compassion or reason.Across Asia and Africa the forces of religious enthusiasm are gathering strength, and reasom and tolerance are not safe even in the secular states of the West. The historian Huge Trevor-Roper has said that it was the spread of the spirit of science in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that finally ended the burning pf the witches in Europe. We may need to rely again on the influence of science to preserve a sane wolrd.It's not the certainty of the scientific knowledge that fits it for this role, but its UNCERTAINTY. Seeing scientists change their minds again and again about the matters that can be studied directly in laboratory experiments, how can one take seriously the claims of religious traditions or sacred writings to certain knowledge about matters beyond human experience”

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

“With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion.”

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