“I can hope that this long sad story, this progression of priests and ministers and rabbis and ulamas and imams and bonzes and bodhisattvas, will come to an end. I hope this is something to which science can contribute . . . it may be the most important contribution that we can make.”
“This is one of the great social functions of science to free people from superstition.”
“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 regrettable.”
“Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.”
