“I believe the simplest explanation is, there is no God. No one created the universe and no one directs our fate. This leads me to a profound realization that there probably is no heaven and no afterlife either. We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe and for that, I am extremely grateful.” Stephen Hawking

“In his 10 Commandments, God forgot to mention nature. Among the orders he sent to us from Mount Sinai, the Lord could have added, let’s say: ‘Honour the nature of which we are part of’. But he did not think about it.” Eduardo Galeano

“Man is manifestly not the measure of al things. This universe is shot through with mystery. The very fact of its being, and of own, is a mystery absolute, and the only miracle worthy of the name. The consciousness that animates us itself central to this mystery and ground for any experience we may wish to call "spiritual.” No myth needs to be embraced for us to commune with the profundity of our circumstance. No personal God need to be worshipped for us to live in awe at the beauty and immensity of creation. No tribal fictions need to be rehearsed for us to realize, one fine day, that we do, in fact, love our neighbors, that our happiness is inextricable from their own, and that our interdependence demands that people everywhere be given the opportunity to flourish. The days of our religious identities are clearly numbered. Whether the days of civilization itself are numbered would seem to depend, rather to much, on how soon we realize.“ Sam Harris