Certain it is that a conviction, akin to religious feeling, of the rationality or intelligibility of the world lies behind all scientific work of a higher order.

People to whom their daily life appears too empty and monotonous easily grow religious; this is comprehensible and excusable, only they have no right to demand religious sentiments from those whose daily life is not empty and monotonous.

After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.

A degree of culture, and assuredly a very high one, is attained when man rises above superstitions and religious notions and fears, and, for instance, no longer believes in guardian angels or in original sin, and has also ceased to talk of the salvation of his soul.

Most religious stories and mythologies have some sort of similar root, some sort of global archetypes.

My religious point of view is something I can't talk about. It goes against my belief system to talk publicly about my own spiritual beliefs.