Religion is a subject on which I have ever been most scrupulously reserved. I have considered it as a matter between every… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I believe that a triangle, if it could speak, would say that God is eminently triangular, and a circle that the divine… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Separation of church and state in Virginia, instead of weakening Christianity, as the conservatives of the Revolution had feared, really aided it… — H. J Eckenrode Copy Share Image
I would not look with favor upon a President working to subvert the First Amendment's guarantees of religious liberty ... Neither do… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
People who believe in a divine creator, trying to live their lives in obedience to his supposed wishes and in expectation of… — Barbara Smoker Copy Share Image
A divine revelation must necessarily be intolerant of contradiction; it must repudiate all improvement in itself, and view with disdain that arising… — John William Draper Copy Share Image
This type of man who is devoted to the study of wisdom is always most unlucky in everything, and particularly when it… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
There can be no doubt ... of our dependence upon forces beyond our control. Primitive man was so impotent in the face… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The Chief Justice's ... main point seemed to be that the references to God in the Pledge of Allegiance aren't really religious… — Ed Buckner 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
The ignorant are a reservoir of daring. It almost seems that those who have yet to discover the known are particularly equipped… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Believe it, my good friend, to love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in the world, and… — Anthony Collins Copy Share Image
How to raise this dead level of theistic belief is really a matter of life and death for all denominations. Therefore their… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
It is a conspicuous fact in our modern Christian society that as a result and cumulation of our partriarchal development, the woman… — Francesc Ferrer i Guardia Copy Share Image
I have neither time nor disposition to enter into discussion with the Friend, and end this occasion by suggesting for her consideration… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The language and concepts contained herein are guaranteed not to cause eternal torment in the place where the guy with the horns… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
The intellectual who no longer feels attached to anything is not satisfied with opinion merely; he wants certainty, he wants a system.… — Raymond Aron Copy Share Image
All history shows that, in exact proportion as nations advance in civilisation, the accounts of miracles taking place among them become rarer… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
One must keep one's character. Earn a character first if you can, and if you can't, then assume one. From the code… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related, that it is difficult to class them separately. One step above the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
It is no credit to the orthodox that they do not now believe all the absurdities that were believed 150 years ago.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I know not how I seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors? Fallible men; men governed by bad passions, by private as well as… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is told that the great Angelo, in decorating a church, painted some angels wearing sandals. A cardinal looking at the picture… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
They all attributed the peaceful dominion of religion in their country mainly to the separation of church and state. I do not… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
For telling a good and incisive religious joke, you should be praised. For telling a bad one, you should be ridiculed and… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
The significant contribution of empiricism was not the eradication of certainty, but the eradication of infallibility as a criterion of certainty. And… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
Science is a limited way of knowing, looking at just the natural world and natural causes. There are a lot of ways… — Eugenie Scott Copy Share Image
The human race is guided by its own ideas, and only by its ideas. If thought were left perfectly free from ban… — Ellen Battelle Dietrick Copy Share Image
If there is no military need for the building, leave it alone, neither putting anyone in or out of it, except on… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
No man complains of his neighbor for ill management of his affairs, for an error in sowing his land, or marrying his… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The Jews emerge into history, not a nation of keen spiritual aspirations and altruistic ethics, but that pagan people, worshipping rocks, sheep… — James T. Shotwell Copy Share Image
The melancholy have the best sense of the comic, the opulent often the best sense of the rustic, the dissolute often the… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
A system is empirical or scientific only if it is capable of being tested by experience. These considerations suggest that not the… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Activity proneness in the service of an ideology ... leads the individual into an irreversible series of commitments from which is forged… — Edgar Schein 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 well ID stacks up as a scientific alternative to Darwinism. To gauge how well ID is doing as a platform for scientific research, I logged into the best database of…” quote by Chet Raymo](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/f5c/chet-raymo-34749_alternatives_the-new-advocates-of-id-intelligent-desi_3232484.png)
