“ There is nothing more innately human than the tendency to transmute what has become customary into what has been divinely ordained. Suzanne La Follette Journalist
“ When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown. Stephen Jay Gould Paleontologist
“ For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions. Albert Einstein Theoretical Physicist
“ I have ever judged of the religion of others by their lives... But this does not satisfy the priesthood. They must have a positive, a declared assent to all of their interested absurdities. My opinion is that there would never have been an infidel, if there had never been a priest. Thomas Jefferson 3rd U.S. President
“ This sense of wonder leads most scientists to a Superior Being - der Alte, the Old One, as Einstein affectionately called the Deity - a Superior Intelligence, the Lord of all Creation and Natural Law. Abdus Salam Physicist
“ I have neither time nor disposition to enter into discussion with the Friend, and end this occasion by suggesting for her consideration the question whether, if it be true that the Lord has appointed me to do the work she has indicated, it is not probable that he would have communicated knowledge of the fact to me as well as to her. Abraham Lincoln 16th U.S. President