by David Berlinski

"The best data we have concerning the big bang," the Nobel laureate Arno Penzias remarked, "are exactly what I would have predicted, had I nothing to go on but the first five books of Moses, the Psalms, the Bible as a whole." - page 71

"To a mathematician, these things (remarkable, strange and baffling results that have appeared in theoretical physics over the past twenty years) cannot be coincidence, they must come from a higher reason. And that reason is the assumption that this big mathematical theory describes nature." - Mathematician Richard Thomas of the Imperial College of London - page 46

But if scientific atheists are disposed to challenge God's existence - the party line, after all - they are far less willing to reflect on what His dismissal entails. In many ways, the issues raised by the existence of moral laws suggest a surprising connection between the laws of physics and the laws of morality. In both cases, questions arise very quickly as to the source of such laws and the reason for their truth. - page 36

What Hitler did not believe, and what Stalin did not believe and what Mao did not believe and what the SS did not believe and what the Gestapo did not believe and what the NKVD did not believe and what the commissars, functionaries, swaggering executioners, Nazi doctors, Communist Party theoreticians, intellectuals, Brown Shirts, Black Shirts, gauleiters, and a thousand party hacks did not believe was that God was watching what they were doing. - page 26