"Religious people tend to be smarter"

[Thumpalumpacus]

Yes, he did.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_..._afterlife

"It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I feel also not able to imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere. My views are near those of Spinoza: admiration for the beauty of and belief in the logical simplicity of the order which we can grasp humbly and only imperfectly. I believe that we have to content ourselves with our imperfect knowledge and understanding and treat values and moral obligations as a purely human problem—the most important of all human problems."

"The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends. No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) change this. These subtilised interpretations are highly manifold according to their nature and have almost nothing to do with the original text."

"It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it."

The last is my favorite. The term "unbounded" is a mathematical term, meaning a function (equation) that is not bounded by integers, but which goes from negative infinity to infinity. He may have been using it in a more colloquial context, simply to mean "bigger than I can express in words", but I like to think he deliberately chose the largest mathematical term he could express.

Quote-mining Ole Al is a cottage industry amongst theists, because everyone knows that having insight into the physics of gravity makes one an expert on everything else.