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- If a `religion' is defined to be a system of ideas that contains unprovable statements, then Godel taught us that mathematics is not only a religion, it is the only religion that can prove itself to be one.
- John D. Barrow (1952 - ), (1735-1811)
- Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
- e e cummings (1894 - 1962)
- Americans are a free people, who know that freedom is the right of every person and the future of every nation. The liberty we prize is not America's gift to the world; it is God's gift to humanity.
- George W. Bush (1946 - ), State of the Union address 2003
- In the begining there was nothing, and it exploded.
- Terry Pratchett, (on the big bang theory)
- Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
- Jim Morrison (1943 - 1971)
- Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
- Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)
- Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them, while on the other hand to know and understand a multitude of things renders men cautious in passing judgement upon anything new.
- Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642), The Assayer
- To study the phenomenon of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.
- Sir William Osler (1849 - 1919)
- A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), Sirens of Titan
- Cleave to no faith when faith brings blood.
- Arthur Miller (1915 - 2005), The Crucible, act II
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