If the ignorance of nature gave birth to gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them. — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The doctrine of the double motion of the earth about its axis and about the sun is false, and entirely contrary to… — Pope Paul V Copy Share Image
The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves. — Plato Copy Share Image
Oh build your ship of death. Oh build it! For you will need it. For the voyage of oblivion awaits you. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true. — Demosthenes Copy Share Image
There is joy in the search for knowledge about the universe in all its manifestations. — Janet Asimov Copy Share Image
To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom, as all alike have taught her inferiority and subjection. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The true believer is in a high degree protected against the danger of certain neurotic afflictions; by accepting the universal neurosis he… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Equality assertion of all cultures is disrespectful against human achievements. It is absurdity that the philosophy which got tangled at the level… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
A drawing, brought by Colonel Coombs, from a sculptured column in a cave-temple in the South of India, represents the first pair… — Godfrey Higgins Copy Share Image
What is wrong with inciting intense dislike of a religion if the activities or teachings of that religion are so outrageous, irrational… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
“Essentially, almost all humans are born with a fear of the unknown. It casts a pall of anxiety which pushes us into… — Mario Stinger Copy Share Image
There is this blessing, that while life has but one entrance, it has exits innumerable, and as I choose the house in… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Another question a biblically literate reporter might have asked is, "Why are you proclaiming the Ten Commandments when you believe no one… — Cal Thomas Copy Share Image
Ignorance is the evil - knowledge will be the remedy. Knowledge not of what sort of beings we shall be hereafter, or… — Ernestine Rose Copy Share Image
“Someone with a fresh mind, one not conditioned by upbringing and environment, would doubtless look at science and the powerful reductionism that… — Peter Atkins Copy Share Image
“[ Biographical info on Rita ] Born and raised in a Sephardic Jewish family in which culture and love of learning were… — Rita Levi-Montalcini Copy Share Image
Agnosticism is a perfectly respectable and tenable philosophical position; it is not dogmatic and makes no pronouncements about the ultimate truths of… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
“The less instructed atheist will ask whether God can make a weight so heavy that He cannot lift it, in the happy… — Frank Sheed Copy Share Image
“Atheism being a proposition as unnatural as monstrous, difficult also and hard to establish in the human understanding, how arrogant soever, there… — Michel de Montaigne 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
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
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
The more thoroughly I conduct scientific research, the more I believe that science excludes atheism. — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
Under the rubric of religious freedom, we respect the right to worship differently much more than the right to worship not at… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
The liberty of conscience, which above all other things ought to be to all men dearest and most precious. — John Milton Copy Share Image
It is conceivable that religion may be morally useful without being intellectually sustainable. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
We wish our Christian brothers would be honest and permit us our heroes. We do not deny them theirs. — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
There's heaven. There it is. What more do we mean? People, free to come together, and in beauty - for growth. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
Dr. Manton taught my youth to yawn, and prepared me to be a High-Churchman, that I might never hear him read nor… — Henry Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
I never outgrew my conversion to atheism at 13, but at various times was a serious cultural Jew. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“An honest and self-aware atheism, therefore, should proudly recognize itself as the quintessential expression of heroic irrationalism:” — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
This crime called blasphemy was invented by priests for the purpose of defending doctrines not able to take care of themselves. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But honest men do not pretend to know; they are candid and sincere; they love the truth; they admit their ignorance, and… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
In a chat with an Atheist one time he said Prove God exists I replied Prove the suns going to shine tomorrow — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
If the hammer and the shuttle could move themselves, slavery would be unnecessary. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Atheism leads to numerous absurdities promoted by otherwise intelligent people. — Dave Hunt Copy Share Image
“You do not have to worhip god to be good and you certainly do not have to be good to worship god.” — Chris Decker Copy Share Image
Atheists are suffering from bad PR. What if Sesame Street had an atheist character? — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
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