Many men without morals have attacked religion because it was contrary to their inclinations. Many wise men have despised it because it… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
That there is a continuous link from humans to gorillas, with the intermediate species merely long dead, is beyond the understanding of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
So that, were it the purpose of God to produce comets as signs of his wrath it would be true to say… — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
An atheist before Darwin could have said, following Hume: I have no explanation for complex biological design. All I know is that… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Science and Technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Human beings never think for themselves... For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told-and become upset… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“Es gibt keinen Gott und Dirac ist sein Prophet. ( There is no God and Dirac is his Prophet .) { A… — Wolfgang Pauli Copy Share Image
The evening was very professionally organized, and most of the people were exceptionally polite, although it did make me a little nervous… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
“I'm a Skeptic. And I'm a Journalist. I look up things in the library—a lot! I believe in the motto of Missouri,… — Earl Lee Copy Share Image
I believe that the Jews have made a contribution to the human condition out of all proportion to their numbers: I believe… — Peter Ustinov Copy Share Image
In fact, nothing in science as a whole has been more firmly established by interwoven factual information, or more illuminating than the… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“His friends told him that nobody was interested in his goddam soul unless it was the priest and he managed to answer… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
The two greatest works of war mythology in the west ... are the Iliad and the Old Testament... When we turn from… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Nothing shall warp me from the belief that every man is a lover of truth. There is no pure lie, no pure… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The Chief Justice's ... main point seemed to be that the references to God in the Pledge of Allegiance aren't really religious… — Ed Buckner Copy Share Image
For some reason or other man looks for the miracle, and to accomplish it he will wade through blood. He will debauch… — Henry Miller 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
“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
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
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
My paternal grandmother would not light a fire on the Sabbath and piled all Sunday's washing-up in a bucket, to be dealt… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
I am like all other atheists only in that I do not believe there are any gods. Beyond that, I may differ… — Richard Carrier Copy Share Image
Faith is precisely the paradox that the single individual as the single individual is higher than the universal, is justified before it,… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
...any belief in supernatural creators, rulers, or influencers of natural or human process introduces an irreparable split into the universe, and prevents… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
“1) There exist instances of intense suffering which an omnipotent, omniscient being could have prevented without thereby losing some greater good or… — William L. Rowe Copy Share Image
The ignorant are a reservoir of daring. It almost seems that those who have yet to discover the known are particularly equipped… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
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
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
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