Stephen Hawking--- I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.||||| To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd. Voltaire

I cannot imaging anyone looking at the sky and denying God.---Abraham Lincoln.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
Albert Einstein 
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty. Albert Einstein

“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”  Albert Einstein quotes

“If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him.”

Voltaire quotes (French Philosopher and Writer. One of the greatest of all French authors,1694-1778) Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations. Warren Buffett

The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web, bringing people, languages, ideas, and values together.

— Bill Gates, CEO, Microsoft Corporation

Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired

Mark Twain 

Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come . . . . Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it has in it something for every age to investigate.

— Seneca

Sigmund Freud 
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God. 

Whether outwardly or inwardly, whether in space or time, the farther we penetrate the unknown, the vaster and more marvelous it becomes.

CHarles A. Lindbergh

We do not ask for what useful purpose the birds do sing, for song is their pleasure since they were created for singing. Similarly, we ought not to ask why the human mind troubles to fathom the secrets of the heavens. . . . The diversity of the phenomena of Nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.

Johannes Kepler,

Man must rise above the Earth—to the top of the atmosphere and beyond—for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives.

— Socrate

It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.

Wehrner von Braun, on the importance of space travel, 10 February 1958

For everyone . . . must see that astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

— Plato

 “Isn’t it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years just so that we could discover them!

initial successes in 1903, Orville Wright wrote to a friend, remarking:

“I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts; the rest are details.”

Albert Einstein quotes Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish. Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)