What is the use of assuring Fundamentalists that science is compatible with religion. They retort at once, Certainly not with our religion. — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
Wherever God erects a house of prayer the Devil always builds a chapel there; And 't will be found, upon examination, the… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
I find every sect, as far as reason will help them, make use of it gladly; and where it fails them, they… — John Locke Copy Share Image
A wise man has told us that "men are once for all so made that they prefer a rational world to believe… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
To fill a world with ... religions of the Abrahamic kind, is like littering the streets with loaded guns. Do not be… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Religion supposed Heaven and Hell, the word of God, and sacraments, and twenty other circumstances which, taken seriously, are a wonderful check… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
As long as every question is answered by the word "God," scientific inquiry is simply impossible. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Atheists have just as much of a right to the public discourse as any ... people of any religious faith in this country. — Al Gore Copy Share Image
A book which the Mohammedans foolishly believe to have been written by divine inspiration, but which Christians know to be a wicked… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I learned very early on that it's necessary but not sufficient for scientists to go to school board meetings and say, 'We… — Eugenie Scott Copy Share Image
I think that Richard Nixon will go down in history as a true folk hero, who struck a vital blow to the… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Reason must approach nature in order to be taught by it. It must not, however, do so in the character of a… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Hell has been conceived as a police institution, to inspire fear in this world. But the worst of it all is that… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
When you can discover where the fresh colors of the faded flower abide, or the music of the broken lyre, seek life… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
It was not according to the Divine purpose that Jesus was slain at the Passover, but it was according to a human… — John Remsburg Copy Share Image
When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Figures cannot calculate the amount collected by those public and private robbers: it is more than would liberate every slave in the… — Anne Royall Copy Share Image
This doctrine ['that the condition of man cannot be ameliorated, that what has been must ever be, and that to secure ourselves… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
These bible people remind me of another calamity similar to this missionary scheme, when our people, or any christian power would go… — Anne Royall Copy Share Image
But the others, those who tried to bring Jesus to life at the call of love, found it a cruel task to… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
There comes a moment during which almost every girl or boy falls into melancholy; they are tormented by a vague inquietude which… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
I really don't put it down. I never have. It's just that I analyze it and look at it from a very… — Marjoe Gortner Copy Share Image
By right, as the word is employed in this subject, has always been understood discretion, that is, a full and complete power… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
I Must warn you, Iris, that I'm not a believer. And though I'm sure that the revelations of other men must be… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Piety's hard enough to take among the poor who have to practice it. A rich man's piety stinks. It's insufferable. — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
Public schools are where the next generation of leaders are educated and where cultural exchange will take place. — Eugenie Scott Copy Share Image
It is raining bombs on the house of the Lord. I go in fear and trembling lest one of these terrible bombers… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
I trust there is not a young man now living in the United States who will not die a Unitarian. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
What god would be hanging around Terminal Two of Heathrow Airport trying to catch the 15:37 flight to Oslo? — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
As belief is a passion of the mind, no degree of criminality is attachable to disbelief. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Whenever the clergy were at the elbow of the civil arm, no matter whether they were Catholic or Protestant, persecution was the… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
When we think of his lone effort to live and its bleak reward, the mind turns to the myth "for His mercy… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
The most sacred of the duties of a government [is] to do equal and impartial justice to all its citizens. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
For the existentials, negation is their God. To be precise, that god is maintained only through the negation of human reason. But,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Government is contemptuous of true religion when it confiscates the taxes of Caesar to finance the things of God. — Sam Ervin Copy Share Image
I am not a spokesperson for the church and the church is not a spokesperson for the United States of America. — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
In matters of religion, it is very easy to deceive a man and very hard to undeceive him. — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
It is important to bear in mind the now commonly accepted fact that in its primitive stages, religion had nothing to do… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
Man has learned to cope with all questions of importance without recourse to God as a working hypothesis. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration. — John Locke Copy Share Image
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