With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion.

Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion

Most scientists I know don't care enough about religion even to call themselves atheists.

On balance the moral influence of religion has been awful.

I can hope that this long sad story, this progression of priests and ministers and rabbis and ulamas and imams and bonzes and bodhisattvas, will come to an end. I hope this is something to which science can contribute ... it may be the most important contribution that we can make.

I enjoy being at a meeting that doesn't start with an invocation!

[C]reationists [and] other religious enthusiasts [are], in many parts of the world ..., the most dangerous adversaries of science.

This is one of the great social functions of science - to free people from superstition

Science should be taught not in order to support religion and not in order to destroy religion. Science should be taught simply ignoring religion.