“I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.”
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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.