"I look upon myself as a humanist. I have faith in the goodness of mankind."

"Despite his strict upbringing in the Orthodox Church, Vavilov had been an atheist from an early age. If he worshipped anything, it was science."

"I don't believe in God."

"I want solutions and God just seems like such a cop-out."

“As an atheist, Suzuki declares, he has no illusions about life and death, adding that the individual is insignificant in cosmic terms. Human beings must come to terms with the unbearable reality that they, like all life, will be extinguished.”