We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrology and the reading of palms. I used to think that science would save us, and science certainly tried. But we can't stand any more tremendous explosions, either for or against democracy.

I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better. I fully expected that by the time I was twenty-one, so…

I know that millions of dollars have been spent to produce this splendid graduating class, and that the main hope of your teachers was, once they got through w…

I've often thought there ought to be a manual to hand to little kids, telling them what kind of planet they're on, why they don't fall off it, how much time th…

'If we are honest-and scientists have to be-we must admit that religion is a jumble of false assertions, with no basis in reality. The very idea of God is a pr…

If there is any consistent enemy of science, it is not religion, but irrationalism.

Religion is the reaction of human nature to its search for God. The presentation of God under the aspect of power awakens every modern instinct of critical rea…