“People will then often say, But surely it’s
better to remain an Agnostic just in case?’ This, to me, suggests such a
level of silliness and muddle that I usually edge out of the
conversation rather than get sucked into it. (If it turns out that I’ve
been wrong all along, and there is in fact a god, and if it further
turned out that this kind of legalistic,
cross-your-fingers-behind-your-back, Clintonian hair-splitting impressed
him, then I think I would choose not to worship him anyway.)”
—
Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt