"My response is that when Creationists talk about God creating every individual species as a separate act, they always instance hummingbirds, or orchids, sunflowers and beautiful things. But I tend to think instead of a parasitic worm that is boring through the eye of a boy sitting on the bank of a river in West Africa, [a worm] that's going to make him blind. And [I ask them], 'Are you telling me that the God you believe in, who you also say is an all-merciful God, who cares for each one of us individually, are you saying that God created this worm that can live in no other way than in an innocent child's eyeball? Because that doesn't seem to me to coincide with a God who's full of mercy." - David Attenborough, British naturalist and broadcaster

"Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained" - James Abram Garfield (1831-81) 20th president of US

"To know that you do not know, is to know a great deal" - Joseph Heller (1923-99) American novelist

"Science without religion is lame! Religion without science is blind" - Albert Einstein (1879-1955) German born mathematical physicist

 "respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education." - Wilson Mizner (1876-1933) American dramatist

"The state has no place in religion, therefore religion has no place in state schools" - Anon

"Education, Education, Education..." - Tony Blair