“If she had some level of theism, we might have a shared theological root from which I could shape holy words.” — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Religion is a non-alcoholic man's alcohol. Alcohol is a non-religious man's religion.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The fine tuning of the universe provides prima facie evidence of deistic design. — Edward Robert Harrison Copy Share Image
If the ignorance of nature gave birth to gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them. — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
The exquisite order displayed by our scientific understanding of the physical world calls for the divine. — Vera Kistiakowsky Copy Share Image
“Heidegger’s philosophy is neither atheism nor theism, but a description of the world from which God is absent.” — William Barrett Copy Share Image
“But if they are shown to be, and are the works not of men but of God, why are the unbelievers so… — Athanasius of Alexandria Copy Share Image
I don't endorse deism or interventionist theism. My point is just that evolutionary biology is logically compatible with the former and with… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
When I hear that a friend has fallen into matrimony, I feel the same sorrow as if I had heard of his… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
The language of theism which was familiar to the people, gave Gandhi the advantage of easy communication with the people, but it… — Goparaju Ramachandra Rao Copy Share Image
I find it as difficult to understand a scientist who does not acknowledge the presence of a superior rationality behind the existence… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
Since belief is measured by action, he who forbids us to believe religion to be true, necessarily also forbids us to act… — William James Copy Share Image
It seems to me that when confronted with the marvels of life and the universe, one must ask why and not just… — Arthur Leonard Schawlow Copy Share Image
“God is logic's corpse, a wound in reason, grammar's empty skin. (1998) It is as obvious to my left brain that there… — Jamey Hecht Copy Share Image
Perhaps the best argument...that the Big Bang supports theism is the obvious unease with which it is greeted by some atheist physicists.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If one believes in a god, one is a Theist. If one does not believe in a god, then one is an… — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
To do Mohammed justice, his main attack was against the idolatries of Asia. Only he thought, just as the Arians did and… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
If it is to be established that there is a God, then we have to have good grounds for believing that this… — Antony Flew Copy Share Image
Even if matter could do every outward thing that God does, the idea of it would not work as satisfactorily, because the… — William James Copy Share Image
“The existence of a limit to science is, however, made clear by its inability to answer childlike elementary questions having to do… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What terrible questions we are learning to ask! The former men believed in magic, by which temples, cities, and men were swallowed… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When I began my career as a cosmologist some twenty years ago, I was a convinced atheist. I never in my wildest… — Frank J. Tipler Copy Share Image
Of course, Jastrow's comment is exaggerated at best; theologians hardly predicted the Big Bang. If our universe turns out to be closed,… — Taner Edis Copy Share Image
“It comes as no surprise to find [Norman] Mailer embracing [in the book On God ] a form of Manicheanism, pitting the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Initially, the God of the Old Testament might seem overwhelming and domineering to you, or tyrannical, or perhaps even evil, which is… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Atheism ... in its philosophic aspect refuses allegiance not merely to a definite concept of God, but it refuses all servitude to… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“Scientists are slowly waking up to an inconvenient truth - the universe looks suspiciously like a fix. The issue concerns the very… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
“It is debatable whether blind faith is truly faith at all. Faith is the perceptive gray area where scientific facts meet an… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“Think outside the box? Indeed. But to add balance to that, one should not in the process forget what the inside of… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“The Oracle pursued a logical course of confuting theism, and leaving 'a-theism' the negative result. It did not, in the absurd terms… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true. — William James Copy Share Image
There are savages without God in any proper sense of the word, but none without ghosts. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics. — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
“Philosophy, that leaned on Heaven before, Shrinks to her second cause, and is no more.” — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“Theism is a self imposed prison where the jailer and prisoner are one.” — Lance Seivert 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
The struggle against atheism is foremost and of necessity a struggle against the inadequacy of our own theism. — Karl Rahner Copy Share Image
Disbelief crept over me at a very slow rate, but at last it was complete. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image