The whole story is about change. We are very lucky that the earth's history is recorded in fossilized remains. And we can… — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
For me, it doesn't really matter whether you are a believer, an agnostic or an atheist. For me, what does count is… — Jean-Paul Malfatti Copy Share Image
The question of whether there exists a Creator and Ruler of the Universe has been answered in the affirmative by some of… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I would not exchange my freedom from old superstition, if I were to be burned at the stake next month, for all… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
Let us account for all we see by the facts we know. If there are things for which we cannot account, let… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“For wicked people to do evil requires money, and good people superstition. Combining these elements and we get organized religion, but to… — Sean S Kamali Copy Share Image
It is much to be lamented that a man of Franklin's general good character and great influence should have been an unbeliever… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The clergy converted the simple teachings of Jesus into an engine for enslaving mankind and adulterated by artificial constructions into a contrivance… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Apologys for self-evident Truths can never have any effect on those who have so little Sense as to deny them. They are… — Anthony Collins Copy Share Image
The plain message conveyed by the new administration is that George W Bush's America is a Christian nation, and that non-Christians are… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
Science ... warns me to be careful how I adopt a view which jumps with my preconceptions, and to require stronger evidence… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
We repeat and again reaffirm that neither a State nor the Federal Government can constitutionally force a person 'to profess a belief… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
Some say Christianity is just a crutch. But let's turn the question on its edge for a moment. Is atheism an emotional… — Greg Koukl Copy Share Image
“[Religious belief is] outmoded and ridiculous. [Belief in gods was a] worn out but once useful crutch in mankind's journey towards truth.… — P.W. Atkins Copy Share Image
“Logically, this kind of atheism did not prove that there was no God… On the contrary, Southwell was typical in placing the… — Edward Royle Copy Share Image
Have not all theists painted their Deity as the god of love and goodness? Yet after thousands of years of such preachments… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Torrents of blood have been spilt in the world in vain attempts of the secular arm to extinguish religious discord, by proscribing… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Once you have awakened to the question of faith, you cannot simply return to your everyday agenda like a committed atheist could.… — Martin Walser Copy Share Image
“As to the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or do not exist. For many are the… — Diogenes Laertius Copy Share Image
Legislatures have no right to set up an inquisition and examine into the private opinions of men. Test-laws are useless and ineffectual,… — Oliver Ellsworth Copy Share Image
The time has come to knock off this religion business in American politics. There's no end to the mischief that can occur.… — Lowell P. Weicker, Jr Copy Share Image
In the crowd, herd, or gang, it is a mass-mind that operates-which is to say, a mind without subtlety, a mind without… — Robert M. Lindner Copy Share Image
The only thing that guarantees an open-ended collaboration among human beings, the only thing that guarantees that this project is truly open-ended,… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
If faith cannot be reconciled with rational thinking, it has to be eliminated as an anachronistic remnant of earlier stages of culture… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Atheist n. A person to be pitied in that he is unable to believe things for which there is no evidence, and… — Chaz Bufe Copy Share Image
Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Every Christian sect gives a great handle to Atheism by their general dogma that, without a revelation, there would not be sufficient… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In a Jewish theological seminar there was an hours-long discussion about proofs of the existence of God. After some hours, one rabbi… — Victor Frederick Weisskopf Copy Share Image
Being an ordinary scientist and an ordinary Christian seems perfectly natural to me. It is also perfectly natural for the many scientists… — William Daniel Phillips Copy Share Image
The sermon was based on what he claimed was a well-known fact, that there were no Atheists in foxholes. I asked Jack… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
A creature revolting against a creator is revolting against the source of his own powers-including even his power to revolt...It is like… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If a hit came along, I wouldn't be unhappy about that. But I'm a bit too old for that now-doing videos and… — Nick Lowe Copy Share Image
[Jehovah is] certainly the most jealous, the most vain, the most ferocious, the most unjust, the most bloodthirsty, the most despotic, and… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
“atheism, as any rational human being may come to understand it, is not a logically coherent position, but has only been made… — Bō Jinn Copy Share Image
Laws which prescribe what everyone must believe, and forbid men to say or write anything against this or that opinion, are often… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
There is a hearty Puritanism in the view of human nature which pervades the instrument of 1787. It is the work of… — James Bryce Copy Share Image
This hideous doctrine of eternal torment after death has probably caused more terror and misery, more cruelty and more violation of natural… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
The moment you introduce a despotism in the world of thought, you succeed in making hypocrites - and you get in such… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“ He rejected traditional religious beliefs (Jewish, Christian, and Islamic) not on the basis of any reasoned argument, nor even with an… — Walter J. Moore Copy Share Image
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