So They Say

I think your average comedy crowd would be a bit more comfortable with transvestitism than Roman Catholicism.
Frank Skinner talking to fellow comedian Eddie Izzard.

[Legislators] must not ask 'What does my religion teach about this measure?', but 'Will society benefit from it in the empirical world?'
The philosopher Mary Warnock.

It is after all a perfectly scientific way of proceeding to posit a hypothesis involving the existence of an unseen entity without which it is difficult to understand how the system actually coheres.
The Bishop of London compares God to the Higgs boson particle.

I enjoy the liberating effect it's had ... you're enjoying the moment of being on the field. In the past I'd get into the changing room and think, 'Thank God that's over.'
Johnny Wilkinson on Buddhism