I Was a Serious Atheist, and I Don't Believe in Angels, or Anything Else. And So You Swing Your Pendulum

"I was a serious atheist. I didn't believe in od or or angels, or anythith sort of nonsense," he says. "But then the scientists that came afterwards ... many of them subscribed to the culture of now materialism and atheism." The same sin is committed by all the religious fundamentalists, but now you commit it in a different style, writes Hawking. 'It's really remarkable. It's a remarkable feat of of a mental trickery that is played on oneself'