Quote from "Business" by Iain Banks:
"To us, science is the only religion that works. Other faiths claim miracles, but science delivers them through technology; replacing diseased hearts, talking to people on the other side of the world, traveling to other planets, determining when the Universe began. We display our faith every time we turn on a light switch or step aboard a jet. One of your American professors said, 'To study religion is merely to know the mind of man, but if one truly wanted to know the mind of God, one must study physics' "