Science is experimental, moving forward step-by-step, making trial and learning through success and failure. Is not this also the way of religion,… — William Henry Bragg Copy Share Image
I despise those shallow religious comics. Dennis the Menace, for instance, is the most shallow. When they show him praying - I… — Charles M. Schulz Copy Share Image
“If you want to expel religion from our European civilization, you can only do it by means of another system of doctrines;… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
What the Latins have done in this text (1 John v, 7) the Greeks have done to Paul (1 Tim. iii, 16).… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Christians have ... identified their opponents, whether Jews, pagans, or heretics, with forces of evil, and so with Satan... Nor have things… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
“All these people described their doubts in the same way: as having been thrust unwillingly into their minds by the devil. We… — Alec Ryrie Copy Share Image
The new advocates of ID [Intelligent Design] ask that their ideas be judged by scientific, not religious, criteria. OK, let's see how… — Chet Raymo Copy Share Image
Religion prevents our children from having a rational education; religion prevents us from removing the fundamental causes of war; religion prevents us… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It seems to me that if one had kept silence up to now regarding religion, people would still be submerged in the… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
“I was lost a long time, without knowing it. Without the Faith, one is free, and that is a pleasant feeling at… — Morris L. West Copy Share Image
“It is often argued that religion is valuable because it makes men good, but even if this were true it would not… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The establishment of religious freedom was no less momentous an achievement than the clearing of the great forest or the winning of… — Clinton Rossiter Copy Share Image
I am aware that the conclusions arrived at in this work will be denounced by some as highly irreligious; but he who… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“A couple of months ago I had a dream, which I remember with the utmost clarity. (I don't usually remember my dreams.)… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“The foundation of morality on the human sentiments of what is acceptable behavior versus repulsive behavior has always made morals susceptible to… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“There is something distinctly odd about the argument, however. Believing is not something you can decide to do as a matter of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“To an even moderately sophisticated and well-read person it should come as no surprise that any religion at all has its hidden… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
“It is among men of genius and science that Atheism alone is found, but among these alone is cherished an hostility to… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I am pleased as punch no longer to believe in a god who declares reason a sin, who will not choose many… — Ruth Hurmence Green Copy Share Image
I am not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Science and religion are very much alike. Both are imaginative and creative aspects of the human mind. The appearance of a conflict… — John Eccles Copy Share Image
Man stands alone in the universe, a unique product of a long, unconscious, impersonal, material process with unique understanding and potentialities. These… — George Gaylord Simpson Copy Share Image
There can never be any real opposition between religion and science; for the one is the complement of the other. Every serious… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
I believe in absolute freedom of conscience for all men and equality of all churches, all sects and all beliefs before the… — Al Smith Copy Share Image
I believe in God the way I believe in quarks. People whose business it is to know about quantum physics or religion… — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
Today, almost half a century after the publication of the Encyclical [of Pius IX], new knowledge has led to the recognition in… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
"Cynicism," like "heresy" and "heterodoxy" and "atheism" and "agnosticism" and "paganism" and "heathenism," is above all else a way for organized orthodoxy's… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Christians would show sense if they dispatched these argumentative Scotists and pigheaded Ockhamists and undefeated Albertists along with the whole regiment of… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Leave!’ Hazel Motes cried. ‘Go ahead and leave! The truth don’t matter to you. Listen,’ he said, pointing his finger at the… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“The only way of life satisfying the need of all times must be motivated by incentives and rewards – materially, morally and… — Mohammed Ali Muhiyaddin Copy Share Image
“In the search for meaning we must not forget that the gods (or God, for that matter) are a concept of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For such is man: a Theological Dogma might be refuted to him a thousand times - provided however, that he had need… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The purpose prong of the Lemon test requires that a government activity have a secular purpose. That requirement is not satisfied, however,… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
Orchids manufacture their intricate devices from the common components of ordinary flowers, parts usually fitted for very different functions. If God had… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“The cold logic of mid-twentieth-century atheism has now given way to an era of renewed 'spirituality,' but it is an awakening more… — J. Mark Bertrand Copy Share Image
Later, a large band of Christians mounted an attack on this native lord, butchering him along with vast numbers of his people… — Bartolome de las Casas Copy Share Image
The difference between theism and nontheism is not whether one does or does not believe in God. . . Theism is a… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“We've also evolved the ability to simply 'pay it forward': I help you, somebody else will help me. I remember hearing a… — Greg Epstein Copy Share Image
The mysteries of the faith are not to [be] explained rashly to anyone. Usually in fact, they cannot be understood by everyone… — Pope Innocent III Copy Share Image
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