Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age 18.
Look deep deep into nature and then you will understand everything better.
It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also cannot imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere... Science has been charged...
Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the descernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Ven...
Curiosity is more important than knowledge.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.
The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.
Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.
God always takes the simplest way.
The deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe forms my idea of God.
All of science is nothing more than the refinement of everyday thinking.
We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our pers...
I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.
Coincidence is God's way of staying anonymous.
You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.