“You cannot work science around a predetermined belief system; you can only work (or rework) a belief system around science, current knowledge, and new evidence. If you are not willing to do that, you believe in the fanciful instead of understanding the factual – and that is delusional.”

“As long as people want the Mormon Church to be true, more than they are willing to face the possibility that it is not,they will not entertain evidence or reason.Delusion becomes a choice.”

“I spent 43 years believing in a false religion. Now I want my 43 years as an atheist. God owes me that.”

“If God does exist - He is not very good at religion.”

“For me, I think the greatest achievements of science is to allow humanity to realize that our world is comprehensible. Through science, rational thinking, we can understand how the universe works.”

“To believe in nothing is as ridiculous as to believe in everything. Reason and factual evidence may convert a belief into knowledge.”

“O poor New England! There is a deep laid plot against your civil and religious liberties, and they will be lost. Your golden days are at an end. You have nothing but trouble before you. . . . Your liberties will be lost.”