When two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly half way between. It… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Christians always write to me threatening me with Hell. Strange how they think this vindicates them and their religion. Threats are the… — Richard Carrier Copy Share Image
Today when the Fundamentalists are once more insisting that the fundamentals of fundamentalism are fundamental to our being No. 1 on the… — Ruth Hurmence Green Copy Share Image
What I have done is to show that it is possible for the way the universe began to be determined by the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The crux of the biscuit is: If it entertains you, fine. Enjoy it. If it doesn't, then blow it out your ass.… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
“Praying five times a day does not make a person religious, helping five people does. Saying grace before meal does not make… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Why, all the Saints and Sages who discuss'd Of the Two Worlds so wisely - they are thrust Like foolish Prophets forth;… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
“So much enthusiasm about the non-existence of God is somewhat bewildering, as no one appears to be nearly as excited about a… — Vox Day Copy Share Image
Scientific evidence for God's existence is being claimed today by theists, many of whom carry respectable scientific or philosophical credentials. He who… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
When I began my career as a cosmologist some twenty years ago, I was a convinced atheist. I never in my wildest… — Frank J. Tipler Copy Share Image
“You might think that, by now, people would have become accustomed to the idea of natural catastrophes. We live on a planet… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The human species – mammalian primates though undoubtedly (s)he is, and made out of the dust of exploded suns - does have… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The new atheists show a disturbing lack of understanding of or concern about the complexity and ambiguity of modern experience, and their… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
I don't think any religion makes any sense and I think people who are into that are really getting duped, and I… — Howard Stern Copy Share Image
The daily disappearance and the subsequent rise of the sun appeared to many of the ancients as a true resurrection; thus, while… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
No doubt the testimony of natural reason, on whatever exercised, must, of necessity, stop short of those truths which it is the… — John Herschel Copy Share Image
Atheism ... that bugbear of women and fools ... is the very top and perfection of free-thinking. It is the grand arcanum… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
The very concept of sin comes from the Bible. Christianity offers to solve a problem of its own making! Would you be… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
It is through the perversion of the religious element in woman, playing upon her hopes and fears of the future, holding this… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
This sense of wonder leads most scientists to a Superior Being - der Alte, the Old One, as Einstein affectionately called the… — Abdus Salam Copy Share Image
Nothing is more difficult and nothing requires more character than to find oneself in open opposition to ones time (and those one… — Kurt Tucholsky Copy Share Image
The very act of sacrifice magnifies the one who sacrifices himself to the point where his sacrifice is much more costly to… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Sir Richard Steele has observed, that there is this difference between the Church of Rome and the Church of England: the one… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Assuming the universe came from nothing, it is empty to begin with... Only by the constant action of an agent outside the… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
But of all Nonsense, Religious Nonsense is the most nonsensical; so enough, & more than enough of it - Only, by the… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
Don't say anything about this to anybody. Any one would say that I am trying to play the good-natured philosopher. I am… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
The chimpanzee and the human share about 99.5 percent of their evolutionary history, yet most human thinkers regard the chimp as a… — Robert Trivers Copy Share Image
I think only an idiot can be an atheist. We must admit that there exists an incomprehensible power or force with limitless… — Christian B. Anfinsen Copy Share Image
Which is better: to have fun with fungi or to have Idiocy with ideology, to have wars because of words, to have… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place, (Portentous sight!) the owlet Atheism, sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon, drops his blue-fringed… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The clear and perfect truth no man has seen, nor will there be anyone who knows about the gods and what I… — Xenophanes Copy Share Image
“It is odd that the Bible says, ‘God created man,’ whereas it is the other way round: man has created God. It… — Béla Bartók Copy Share Image
Those are not at all to be tolerated who deny the being of God. Promises, covenants, and oaths, which are the bonds… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Science reveals where religion conceals. Where religion purports to explain, it actually resorts to tautology. To assert that "God did it" is… — Peter Atkins Copy Share Image
The Bible may, indeed does, contain a warrant for trafficking in humans, for ethnic cleansing, for slavery, for bride-price, and for indiscriminate… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The only perfect circle on the human body is the eye. When a baby is born it's so perfect, but when it… — Richey Edwards Copy Share Image
If it were true that Christianity and science were incompatible, there would be no Christians who were respected scientists. If fact, about… — Jeffrey Burton Russell Copy Share Image
There is at least one more atheism left; it is by its very nature a belligerent form that wants to spread far… — Gerard Verschuuren Copy Share Image
I am thoroughly convinced that when the last chapter of humanity is written, we will find that the implications of atheism, i.e.,… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
