In the future, please provide proper citations either for the works being referenced or for the source of the quotations. When daylight comes, however, it is foolish to use the blind, old men as guides. The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those most distinguished even in popular estimation for wisdom and virtue, are complete skeptics in religion. Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. I defend the God of the religionists against the libels of his own believers.
Man is certanly stark mad.
He cannot make a flea, and yet he will be making gods by the dozen. It should be said that quotations, in and of themselves, prove nothing except what the speaker might think. Their appeal lies in the beauty of the well-turned phrase. Until you can produce data to suggest that the majority of scientists are atheists, the insinuation you made above, that 99 percent of educated people don't believe in God, remains merely the latest in your long series of failed efforts to discredit such beliefs. Your failed attempt to distort this statistic is the latest in your long series of futile arguments in support of your own beliefs.