I don't try to imagine a personal God; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.
Albert Einstein
(p.31)

A quasi-mystical response to nature and the universe is common among scientists and rationalists. It has no connection with supernatural belief.
(p. 32)

Howis that hardly any major religin has looked at science and concluded, "This is better than we thought! The Universe is much begger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant"? Instead they say, "No, no, no! My gos is a little god, and i want him to stay that way". A religion, old or new that stressed the magnificence of the Universe as revealed my moderns science might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by conventional faiths.
Carl Sagan
(p. 33)

An atheist in this sense of philosophical naturalist is somebody who believes there is nothing beyond the natural, physical, world, no supernatural creative intelligence lurking behind the observable universe, no soul that outlasts the body and no miracles - except in the sense of natural phenomena that we don't yet understand.
(p.35)

Or a pantheist, like Spinoza, whose philosophy he admired:"I believe in Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with fates and actions of human beings"
p39

jk: I am not astonished at all that Einstein admired Spinoza. I would like to know what Niels Bohr thought about Spinoza :-))

Pantheism is sexed up atheism. Deism is watered down theism.
p. 40

in 2004 James Nixon, a twelfe year old boy won the right in court to wear a T-shirt to school bearing the words "Homosexuality is a sin, Islam is a lie, abortion is murder. Some issues are just black and white" The school told him not to wear the T shirt - and the boys parents sued the school....the Nicons' lawyers appealed to the constitutional right to freedom of religion.
p.45

Many people have noted the contrast between the hysterical hurt professed by Muslims and the readiness with which Arab media publish stereotypical anti-Jewis cartoons. At a demonstration in Pakistan against the Danish cartoons, a woman in a black burka was photographed, carrying a banner reading "God bless Hitler".
p49

All politicians must ge used to disrespectful cartoons of their faces, and nobody riots in their defence. What is so spcial about religion that we grant it such uniquely privileged respect?
p.50