"Intellectual Property is the oil of the 21st century"

(Mark Getty, chairman of Getty Images)

"Right now using scanners to study religion is a little bit like trying to figure out how a chess playing computer works by using a voltmeter."

(Daniel Dennett 2006: Breaking The Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon. Caltech Lecture.)

"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."

(Albert Einstein, Ideas and Opinions, Crown Publishers, New York, 1954.)

"'Culture' has commonly become the name for all those things we practice without really taking seriously. And this is why we dismiss fundamentalist believers as 'barbarians' with a 'medieval mindset': they dare to take their beliefs seriously."

(Slavoj Zizek 2007: How China got Religion. New York Times.)