Margherita Hack Quotes & Sayings

It's not God who gave us moral laws, but this doesn't make them less important — Margherita Hack

We (atheists) act in good conscience because we believe in moral principles, not because we expect a reward in Heaven. — Margherita Hack

Us atheist people, we believe we have to act properly and honestly for a moral principle and not because we expect an award in Paradise. — Margherita Hack

I think our brain is our soul. I don't believe in after-life and much less in a sort of buildings-like heaven, where you meet friends, enemies, relatives. — Margherita Hack

Eva's only fault has been the one of wanting to know more, to experiment and search with her own sources the laws of the Universe, of her own body and to refuse the teachings from "above". Eva, basically, represents the curiosity of science against the passive acceptance that belongs to faith. — Margherita Hack