" Yes, Science is corrosive to religious belief, and that's a good thing too. " | " Religion has always been one of my interests, looking at it as a simple human product, with all its elaborations and conceptualizations. " | " Science and superstition are never going to get reconciled. If you believe that the truth lies in strange scrolls, dug out by someone, written by someone, then there is no logic account to that. " |
" In culture after culture, people believe that the soul lives on after death, that rituals can change the physical world and divine the truth, and that illness and misfortune are caused and alleviated by spirits, ghosts, saints, fairies, angels, demons, cherubim, djinns, devils, and gods. " | " Intellectually, what a man thinks of life is his philosophy; but when the philosophic content of his thought works over into his emotional realm and becomes suffused with the emotions of loyalty, sacrifice, devotion and high allegiance, it is then his religion. " | " Religion is the dream of the human mind. But even in dreams we do not find ourselves in emptiness or in heaven, but on earth, in the realm of reality " |