“The only difference between fiction and religion is that people don't kill themselves over fiction.” — Ahmed Mostafa Copy Share Image
God [is] the author of the universe, and the free establisher of the laws of motion. — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
I certainly had no idea how little faith Christians have in their own faith till I saw how ill their courage and… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
Stripping away the irrational, the illogical, and the impossible, I am left with atheism. I can live with that. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Science is and should be seen as "completely neutral" on the issue of the theistic or atheistic implications of scientific results. — George Coyne Copy Share Image
It is not as in the Bible, that God created man in his own image. But, on the contrary, man created God… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
The idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I am unable to take seriously. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
If there are any gods whose chief concern is man, they can't be very important gods. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
If you want to get your soul to heaven, trust in me. Don't judge or question. You are broken now, but faith… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
Heaven is supposed to be a perfect place. Yet, it experienced a war (Revelation 12:7). How can there be a war in… — Dennis McKinsey Copy Share Image
“On the church vaulting above was the clock-face of eternity, void of number and serving as its own hand, only one black… — Jean Paul Copy Share Image
Agnosticism is epistemologically self-contradictory on its own assumptions because its claim to make no assertion about ultimate reality rests upon a most… — Cornelius Van Til Copy Share Image
Far from being an aberration that is not representative of Christianity, the persecution of heretics follows logically from the connection of faith… — Shadia Drury Copy Share Image
When the stakes are this high- when calling God by the right name can make the difference between eternal happiness and eternal… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
When it was first said that the sun stood still and world turned round, the common sense of mankind declared the doctrine… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
But who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“One of the first unanswerable questions I asked was when I was eight years old. Some cousins of mine always said a… — Madison Arnold Copy Share Image
The battle over the validity of evolution has been publicly posed as a scientific one. However, you will find little sign of… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
Why get excited over this latest episode in the long, sad history of American anti-intellectualism? Let me suggest that, as patriotic Americans,… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“To understand why I jumped from the Mormon wagon train requires an understanding of what Mormons are and how they think. While… — Steve Benson Copy Share Image
It doesn't dawn on this depraved bourgeois world that this is positively a sin against all reason; that it is criminal lunacy… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“[T]he changing, functional, causal, and conditioned world, present to ordinary sensory and mental experience, was what was ultimately real. To be real… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
“I would be quite content to go to their children's bar mitzvahs, to marvel at their Gothic cathedrals, to 'respect' their belief… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“To believers, the bible is a holy book, to unbelievers, it is a story book.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“When you die, there is nothing. [...] to describe it in any way is to give it form.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Do you think a sociopath cries to God as they die? Ironic that one counterfeit being would cry out to another for… — C.J. Anderson Copy Share Image
Three key humanist virtues are courage, cognition, and caring - not dependence, ignorance, or insensitivity to the needs of others. — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
Atheism in its negation of gods is at the same time the strongest affirmation of man, and through man, the eternal yea… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
I believe God created the world for a purpose. The Designer of intelligent design is, ultimately, the Christian God. — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
So natural to mankind is intolerance ... that religious freedom has hardly anywhere been practically realized. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I believe that the more thoroughly science is studied, the further does it take us from anything comparable to atheism. — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
The utter folly of our time is lamentable, that men should think to assist God with human help and to protect the… — Hilary of Poitiers Copy Share Image
Fundamentalists of different religions have more in common with each other than they do with the moderates of their own religions. — Mark Thomas Copy Share Image
The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Science is advanced by proposing and testing hypothesis, not by declaring questions unsolvable. — Nick Matzke Copy Share Image
In the fullness of time, educated people will believe there is no soul independent of the body, and hence no life after… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
Whenever an important event, a revolution, or a calamity turns to the profit of the church, such is always signalised as the… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
People are bursting out of the closet, rejecting their parents' wishes to keep the faith. Atheism is becoming mainstream. — Kevin Smith Copy Share Image
I think no human being can give more than this. Making life possible for the other, if only for a moment. — Martin Buber Copy Share Image