Oh yes he was very wise

“Don’t you think that all you atheists are strangely unsuspicious people?’ Religion and Science

“(D )on’t think rationally for very long at a time – it’s too tiring.” Answers to Questions on Christianity

"If the universe is teeming with life, this, we are told, reduces to absurdity the Christian claim...If, on the other hand, the earth is really unique, then that proves that life is only an accidental by-productd in the universe, and so again disproves our religion.
Really, we are hard to please. We treat God as the police treat a man when he is arrested; whatever He does will be used in evidence against Him.” God in the Dock

“A good toe-nail is not an unsuccessful attempt at a brain: and if it were conscious it would delight in being simply a good toe-nail.” Collected letters