I Have Little Hesitation In Saying That

Religion Is But A Desperate Attempt To Find An Escape From The Truly Dreadful Situation In Which We Find Ourselves. Here We Are In This Wholly Fantastic Universe With Scarcely A Clue As To Whether Our Existence Has Any Real Significance. No Wonder Then That Many People Feel The Need For Some Belief That Gives Them A Sense Of Security, And No Wonder That They Become Very Angry With People Like Me Who Say That This Is Illusory.

Life Cannot Have Had A Random Beginning. ... The Trouble Is That There Are About Two Thousand Enzymes, And The Chance Of Obtaining Them All In A Random Trial Is Only One Part In 10 To The 40,000 Power, An Outrageously Small Probability That Could Not Be Faced Even If The Whole Universe Consisted Of Organic Soup.

I Have Always Thought It Curious That, While Most Scientists Claim To Eschew Religion, It Actually Dominates Their Thoughts More Than It Does The Clergy.

I Don't See The Logic Of Rejecting Data Just Because They Seem Incredible.

Not Far From The Meeting's Venue, At One Of The Famed Observatory Club Tea Meetings, Fred Once Started A Talk By Saying, 'oh, Ooh, Basically A Star Is A Pretty Simple Thing.' And From The Back Of The Room Was Heard The Voice Of R. O. Redman, Saying, 'well, Fred, You'd Look Pretty Simple Too, From Ten Parsecs!