It really is godlike

Geoffrey Hinton, Nobel Prize-winning physicist and computer scientist, commenting on artificial intelligence, AP, 29 August

I travel with my Bible. I still read it. I grew up as a Christian. It’s very important in my life. My mum still goes to church and still encourages me to go

Usain Bolt, retired athlete, The Times, 1 September

If you have someone who’s just very stale and boring, coming out with the platitudes and management-speak of the Church of England, that’s not going to excite anyone

Helen King, General Synod member, quoted in The New Statesman, 29 August

Of course, whatever an archbishop of Canterbury says, there will be dissenters, internal and external. But what that can’t do is damage their confidence in the gospel, their confidence in the Church

Arun Arora, Bishop of Kirkstall, ibid.

The climate isn’t just changing, it has changed. How do we not despair? The answer is that we do the little things. . . Every little thing we do to use less, to mend more, to make space for other lives, is the work of hope. That’s the difference we make, and why it matters

Alice Goodman, Prospect, 3 September

My faith is very important to me and to my wife, and although . . . other people say religion doesn’t impact your politics, it does impact mine. I don’t talk about it very much, but on this I had to be very honest: I’ve thought and prayed about this. I really have

Ed Davey, Leader of the Liberal Democrats, explaining why he plans to boycott the state banquet for President Trump, Today, Radio 4, 28 August

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