It is remarkable, Hardin, how the religion of science has grabbed hold.

It is the chief characteristic of the religion of science that it works.

I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt it was intellectually unrespectable to say one was an atheist, because it assumed knowledge that one didn't have. Somehow, it was better to say one was a humanist or an agnostic. I finally decided that I'm a creature of emotion as well as of reason. Emotionally, I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny....'

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.