Science?is so greatly opposed to history and tradition that it cannot be absorbed by our civilization. — Max Born Copy Share Image
One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Biographies by preachers are of no value. If they admire a man they always make him a saint, while if they dislike… — George C. Lorimer Copy Share Image
When philosophic reason is clear and certain by intuition or necessary induction, no subsequent revelation supported by prophecies or miracles can supersede… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Life feeds on life... feeds on life feeds on life... this is neccesary... this is necessary life feeds on life... feeds on… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
Apart from moral conduct, all that man thinks himself able to do in order to become acceptable to God is mere superstition… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
I took about a year to fully adjust. Like there's a death at the family or a divorce, you don't just snap… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
I don't think that the laws can be considered to be like God because they have been figured out. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
If religious freedom is to endure in America, the responsibility for teaching religion to public school children must be left to the… — Sam Ervin Copy Share Image
I believe in the support of the public school as one of the cornerstones of American liberty. I believe in the right… — Al Smith Copy Share Image
Zealous groups threaten to infringe civil liberties when they seek government support to impose their own religious views on nonadherents. This has… — Norman Dorsen Copy Share Image
The Jews fastened their religion upon the Western world, not because it was more reasonable than the religions of their contemporaries -… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Atheist, in the strict and proper sense of the word, is one who does not believe in the existence of a god,… — Richard Watson Copy Share Image
The piety of "having a personal relationship with Christ" ... is alien to the New Testament... but evangelicals elevate it to the… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Sometimes they reasoned thus: "The Messiah ought to do such a thing, now Jesus is the Messiah, therefore Jesus has done such… — Ernest Renan 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
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
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
I am pleased as punch no longer to believe in a god who declares reason a sin, who will not choose many… — Ruth Hurmence Green Copy Share Image
The burden of all song and praise "unto the Highest" has been that God stands for justice and mercy. Yet injustice among… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
I always thought it was both impious and unnatural that such immanity and bloody strife should reign among professors of one faith. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It is always to be taken for granted, that those who oppose an equality of rights never mean the exclusion should take… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I doubt the fact, to begin with, but if it be so even, what is this but in grand words asking me… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
There is no pestilence in a state like a zeal for religion, independent of morality. — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
As you know, God is generally on the side of the big squadrons against the small ones. — Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy Copy Share Image
This is one of the great social functions of science - to free people from superstition — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
Humanists hold that ethical values are relative to human experience and need not be derived from theological or metaphysical foundations. — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason: The Morning Daylight appears plainer when you put out… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
[That] my body be buried as cheaply as possible and no speeches be permitted at my funeral. — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
It turns out that the word atheism means much less than I had thought. It is merely the lack of theism. — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
I desire that on no occasion ... shall demonstrations of a political or religious character be made before my remains. — Francesc Ferrer i Guardia Copy Share Image
The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
One must choose between God and Man, and all "radicals" and "progressives", from the mildest liberal to the most extreme anarchist, have… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The choir always tittered and whispered all through the service. There was once a church choir that was not ill-bred, but I… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
That peculiar disease of intellectuals, that infatuation with ideas at the expense of experience, that compels experience to conform to bookish expectations. — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
It has been said that love robs those who have it of their wit, and gives it to those who have none. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
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