Francis Crick

The more I learn about science, the more I realize that there is no God.

We are just a collection of molecules.

The brain is a machine.

Consciousness is an emergent property of the brain.

There is no ghost in the machine.

The scientific view of the world is a harsh one.

We live in a meaningless universe.

The view of ourselves as 'persons' is just as erroneous as the view that the sun goes round the earth.

No newborn child has a soul.

You, your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no more than the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules.

The idea that man was created in God's image is a myth.

The belief that we have immortal souls is a superstition.