I suppose that if my parents hadn't stopped forcing me to go to church when I told them I didn't believe in god, I would have just been completely insufferable on the trip to and from church until they no longer even wanted me to go.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
