6 Quotes by Margherita Hack

Us atheist people, we believe we have to act properly and honestly for a moral principle and not because we expect an award in Paradise.

It’s not God who gave us moral laws, but this doesn’t make them less important

Eva’s only fault has been the one of wanting to know more, to experiment and search with her own sources the laws of the Universe, of her own body and to refuse the teachings from “above”. Eva, basically, represents the curiosity of science against the passive acceptance that belongs to faith.

I think our brain is our soul. I don’t believe in after-life and much less in a sort of buildings-like heaven, where you meet friends, enemies, relatives.

Spirituality, for someone like me who doesn’t believe in God, in the existence of soul, in something after-death, is the capacity to love and to understand others – humans, and animals – is the capacity to not do to others what you don’t want other people to do to you.

It’s not God who gave us moral laws, but this doesn’t make them less important.