I should like to preface my remarks with a personal statement in order that my later remarks will not be misunderstood. I consider myself an atheist.

I am not religious in any sense; in fact, I consider myself an atheist.

In some strange way, any new fact or insight that I may have found has not seemed to me as a “discovery” of mine, but rather something that had always been there and that I had chanced to pick up.