The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.
The First Three Minutes (8), p. 154
With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil—that takes religion … One of the great achievements of science has been, if not to make it impossible for intelligent people to be religious, then at least to make it possible for them not to be religious. We should not retreat from this accomplishment.
A Designer Universe, New York Review of Books 46, No. 16, October 21, 1999, quoted by Nancy Frankenberry, The Faith of Scientists, p. 322
No one has been able to think of a logically consistent alternative to quantum mechanics that is only slightly different. Once you start trying to make small changes in quantum mechanics, you get into theories with negative probabilities or other logical absurdities.
“A Designer Universe,” New York Review of Books 46, No. 16 (October 21, 1999), pp. 46-48, reprinted in Frankenberry, The Faith of Scientists (14), pp. 324-325