• Even if you don't believe in God, you still have to believe in something that gives meaning to your life, and shapes your sense of the world. Such a belief is religious.

    Michael Crichton: Even if you don't believe in God, you still have to believe in something that gives meaning to your life, and shapes your sense of the world. Such a belief is religious.
    Remarks to the Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, www.cs.cmu.edu. September 15, 2003.