As both a scientist and a humanist myself, I have struggled to understand different claims to knowledge, and I have eventually come to a formulation of the kind of religious belief that would, in my view, be compatible with science.
No one can travel your own road for you; you must travel it for yourself. My faith in this stems from my childhood. I grew up in a family with a system of religious beliefs handed down to me.
The only way to be true to our American tradition is to maintain absolute governmental neutrality regarding religious beliefs and practices.
I've been very lucky, and therefore I owe it to try and reduce the inequity in the world. And that's kind of a religious belief. I mean, it's at least a moral belief.
Americans are squeamish about anything that seems to punish people for their religious beliefs.
Americans deserve to have their religious beliefs and practices protected. Religious freedom is too important to be trampled by insensitive bureaucracy or bad policy.
Oh, I don't have any religious beliefs.
I'm completely lacking any sense of religious belief, but I am superstitious.
If you have religious faith, very good, you can add on secular ethics, then religious belief, add on it, very good. But even those people who have no interest about religion, okay, it's not religion, but you can train through education.
We know that at conception, the genetic code is there for a unique individual. This is not something that is just a religious belief.