It was the experience of mystery – even if mixed with fear – that engendered religion.

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever – this is a somewhat new kind of religion.

Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish.

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.