Anyone who says he knows God's intention is showing a lot of very human ego.

Science is as corruptible a human activity as any other.

Zeal was like gas, most dangerous when you could not see it. The wrong spark could light it at any time.

That's what you get,' he said, nodding towards a group of the men engaged in some close-order military drill, 'when you give people Bibles and guns. You should give 'em either one or the other, but not both. It just messes up their brains.

Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.