“I'm an atheist: I don't know what it means to believe in God.”
Rita Levi-Montalcini (1909–2012) Italian neurologist
Source: Interview with Piergiorgio Odifreddi in Incontri con menti straordinarie (TEA, Milano, 2007), ISBN 978-88-502-1523-2.
“I don't know what God is.
I don't know what death is. But I believe they have between them
some fervent and necessary arrangement.”
"Sometimes", § 1
Red Bird (2008)
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