Anything that we scientists can do to weaken the hold of religion, should be done and may, in fact, in the end, be our greatest contribution to civil….

The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless..

This is one of the great social functions of science - to free people from superstition.

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that….

I have a friend — or had a friend, now dead — Abdus Salam, a very devout Muslim, who was trying to bring science into the universities in the Gulf st….

It does not matter whether you win or lose, what matters is whether I win or lose!.

Science doesn't make it impossible to believe in God, it just makes it possible not to believe in God.

Rational argument can be defeated by refusing to argue rationally..

As you learn more and more about the irrelevance of human life to the general mechanism of the universe, the idea of an interested god, becomes incre….

All logical arguments can be defeated by the simple refusal to reason logically.

It is even harder to realize that this present universe has evolved from an unspeakably unfamiliar early condition, and faces a future extinction of ….

I think enormous harm is done by religion - not just in the name of religion, but actually by religion. ... Many people do simply awful things out of….

As for me, I have just enough confidence about the multiverse to bet the lives of both Andrei Linde and Martin Rees’s dog..

Science should be taught not in order to support religion and not in order to destroy religion. Science should be taught simply ignoring religion..

The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike..

The whole history of the last thousands of years has been a history of religious persecutions and wars, pogroms, jihads, crusades. I find it all very….

If there is no point in the universe that we discover by the methods of science, there is a point that we can give the universe by the way we live, b….

Some people have views of God that are so broad and flexible that it is inevitable that they will find God wherever they look for him. One hears it s….

Our job in physics is to see things simply, to understand a great many complicated phenomena in a unified way, in terms of a few simple principles..

It is almost irrestible for humans to believe that we have some special relation to the universe, that human life is not just a more-or-less farcical….

A physicist friend of mine once said that in facing death, he drew some consolation from the reflection that he would never again have to look up the….