The footprint of the savage traced in the sand is sufficient to attest the presence of man to the atheist who will… — Hugh Miller Copy Share Image
From this day forward, the millions of our school children will daily proclaim in every city and town, every village and rural… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Secrets of the incomprehensible wisdom of God, unknown to any besides Himself! Man, sprung up only of a few days, wants to… — Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon Copy Share Image
“Atheism leads a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation: all of which may be guides to… — Sir Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“...atheism is not a conscious act of turning away from all gods. It is simply the final destination for those who think.… — Guy P. Harrison Copy Share Image
I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I find that the whole weight of relieving human misery and distress falls on the shoulders of those Heretics and Infidels; and… — Anne Royall Copy Share Image
Lust is the cause of generation Appetite is the support of life Fear or timidity is the prolongation of life, and Fraud… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
“What I admire about the modern atheist is not at all his logic, but rather his gift of imagination. There will always… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I don't know what it is about fecundity that so appalls. I suppose it is the teeming evidence that birth and growth,… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
It is relatively unusual that a physical scientist is truly an atheist. Why is this true? Some point to the anthropic constraints,… — Henry F. Schaefer, III Copy Share Image
It was my duty to give them the best show possible. Say you've got a timid little preacher in North Carolina or… — Marjoe Gortner Copy Share Image
It goes with the passionate intensity and deep conviction of the truth of a religious belief, and of course of the importance… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
Among mammals, a virgin birth (parthenogenesis) can only produce female offspring, for chromosomal reasons. Messiahs are mammals. Therefore, Jesus was... On the… — Frank Zindler Copy Share Image
We should always keep an open mind about any new phenomenon in nature. To merely say that's impossible, therefore it doesn't exist,… — Gordon Stein Copy Share Image
If your stories were real I would scream my dissolution amongst the searching soul; if wishes were not so unreal I would… — Marc Broude Copy Share Image
Our Constitution... has not left the religion of its citizens under the power of its public functionaries, were it possible that any… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I am very hostile to religion because it is enormously dominant, especially in American life. And I don't buy the argument that,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Emotionally I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
There are a lot of very brilliant scholars who believe the reason we have incomplete science on evolution is that there is… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
I like lime-flavoured yoghurt. The end. There is no religion. It’s a man-made fabrication. Once you understand that, you’ll be a happier… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
Real religion should be something that liberates men. But churches don't want free men who can think for themself and find their… — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
How a regulation so unjust in itself, so foreign to the authority of Congress, and so hurtful to the sale of public… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Since our inner experiences consist of reproductions, and combinations of sensory impressions, the concept of a soul without a body seem to… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It is difficult, none the less, for the ordinary man to cast off orthodox beliefs, for he is seldom allowed to hear… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
The philosopher aspires to explain away all mysteries, to dissolve them into light. Mystery, on the other hand, is demanded and pursued… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
The fundamentalists, by 'knowing' the answers before they start, and then forcing nature into the straitjacket of their discredited preconceptions, lie outside… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“An atheist is someone who is disappointed in his search of god. He is a man who strongly needed god but couldn't… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
But the context of religion is a great background for doing science. In the words of Psalm 19, 'The heavens declare the… — Arthur Leonard Schawlow Copy Share Image
They are mostly Americans and almost all are Protestant. Many have a strong grounding in the Bible. In Jerusalem, they suddenly take… — Amos Elon Copy Share Image
Physics filled me with awe, put me in touch with a sense of original causes. Physics brought me closer to God. That… — Isidor Isaac Rabi Copy Share Image
It is no credit to the orthodox that they do not now believe all the absurdities that were believed 150 years ago.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Examine the religious principles which have, in fact, prevailed in the world. You will scarcely be persuaded that they are other than… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The trouble is that neutrality is confused with hostility. We're not disrupting churches, or interrupting people's prayers. We're not fighting religion. — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
Fred Hoyle and I differ on lots of questions, but on this we agree: a common sense and satisfying interpretation of our… — Owen Gingerich Copy Share Image
I know not how I seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Liberalism and Western-style democracy have not been able to help realize the ideals of humanity. Today these two concepts have failed. Those… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Copy Share Image
The intellectual who no longer feels attached to anything is not satisfied with opinion merely; he wants certainty, he wants a system.… — Raymond Aron Copy Share Image
In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
All history shows that, in exact proportion as nations advance in civilisation, the accounts of miracles taking place among them become rarer… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
