"If we define a religion to be a system of thought that contains unprovable statements, so it contains an element of faith, then Gödel has taught us that not only is mathematics a religion but it is the only religion able to prove itself to be one."
John Barrow, Pi in the Sky, 1992
You might want to remove the space at the beginning of the line. It's distracting to have to use the scrollbar to read the full quote.
Here's the new thread for posting quotes, with the usual rules: