“I see no reason to believe that a creator of protoplasm or primeval matter, if such there be, has any reason to be interested in our insignificant race in a tiny corner of the universe, and still less in us, as still more insignificant individuals.”

Science, for me, gives a partial explanation for life. In so far as it goes, it is based on fact, experience and experiment.

Traveling around in a little tin box isolates one from the people and the atmosphere of the place in a way that I have never experienced before.

In my view, all that is necessary for faith is the belief that by doing our best we shall succeed in our aims: the improvement of mankind.

Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated.

Your faith rests on the future of yourself and others as individuals, mine in the future and fate of our successors.

I agree that faith is essential to success in life, but I do not accept your definition of faith, i.e. belief in life after death.

My method of thought and reasoning is influenced by a scientific training—if that were not so my scientific training will have been a waste and a failure.

In my view, all that is necessary for faith is the belief that by doing our best we shall succeed in our aims: the improvement of mankind.

Again, I see no reason why the belief that we are insignificant or fortuitous should lessen our faith.

I maintain that faith in this world is perfectly possible without faith in another world.

Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated.

My method of thought and reasoning is influenced by a scientific training—if that were not so my scientific training will have been a waste and a failure.

I maintain that faith in this world is perfectly possible without faith in another world.

In my view, all that is necessary for faith is the belief that by doing our best we shall succeed in our aims: the improvement of mankind.

In my view, all that is necessary for faith is the belief that by doing our best we shall succeed in our aims: the improvement of mankind.

I see no reason to believe that a creator of protoplasm or primeval matter, if such there be, has any reason to be interested in our insignificant race in a tiny corner of the universe, and still less in us, as still more insignificant individuals.

It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless appetite for applause

The greatest malfunction of spirit is to believe things.

The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.

I never knew anyone, that examined and deliberated about nonsense, who did not believe it before the end of his enquiries.

I don’t believe in God. My God is patriotism. Teach a man to be a good citizen and you have solved the problem of life.

It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.

I do believe there are monstrous and evil acts, but I do not believe those who commit such acts are monsters or evil.