To friends and atheists type Odifreddi Margherita Hack.
"The vice of the modern concept of mental progress is that it is always something to do with broken links, and borders erased dogmas rejected. But if there is such a thing as intellectual growth, there must be a growing belief towards more defined, more and more towards dogma. The human brain is a machine to reach conclusions, if he can not do it, it rusts. When we hear of a man too intelligent to believe, we hear about something that could almost be described as a contradiction in terms. It's like hearing about a nail that was too perfect to hold a carpet or a bolt that was too strong to keep a door closed. "(Chesterton, Heretics)
