“I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I’ve  been an atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt it was  intellectually unrespectable to say one was an atheist, because it  assumed knowledge that one didn’t have. Somehow it was better to say one  was a humanist or an agnostic. I finally decided that I’m a creature of  emotion as well as of reason. Emotionally I am an atheist. I don’t have  the evidence to prove that God doesn’t exist, but I so strongly suspect  he doesn’t that I don’t want to waste my time.”
Isaac Asimov, “Free Inquiry”, Spring 1982.
Isaac Asimov, “Free Inquiry”, Spring 1982.