In complexity, it is only simplicity that can be interesting..

The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the….

Sometimes nature seems more beautiful than strictly necessary..

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….

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

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 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….

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….

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

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….

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

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….

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

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….

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….

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

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….

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….

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

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..