[Science] is corrosive of religious belief, and it's a good thing too. — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
The legislative powers of government reach actions only and not opinions. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A prison is confining to the body, but whether it affects the mind, depends entirely upon the mind. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
The creator who could put a cancer in a believer's stomach is above being interfered with by prayers. — Bret Harte Copy Share Image
Remember always that we are pattern-seeking primates who are especially adept at finding patterns with emotional meaning. — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
All religions united with government are more or less inimical to liberty. All, separated from government, are compatible with liberty. — Henry Clay Copy Share Image
The genuine dictator makes people cry not only by his life, but also by his death. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
When I was quite a boy I had a spasm of religion which lasted six weeks... But I never since have swallowed… — George Meredith Copy Share Image
The concept of God is generated by a brain designed by evolution to find design in nature (a very recursive idea). — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
He who fights with priests may make up his mind to have his poor good name torn and befouled by the most… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
There seem to be only two kinds of people: Those who think that metaphors are facts, and those who know that they… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I cannot believe in the immortality of the soul. No, all this talk of an existence for us, as individuals, beyond the… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
We really are 15 countries, and it's remarkable that each of us thinks we represent the real America. The Midwesterner in Kansas,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
As he was pummeled into one tight spot after another, emerging each time breathless and in amazed chagrin, Bryan flushed, with spots… — E. Haldeman-Julius Copy Share Image
The God idea is growing more impersonal and nebulous in proportion as the human mind is learning to understand natural phenomena and… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
It was not that I thought I was smarter. I had simply explored science and found what seemed to me a far… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
Atheism is the absence of a belief in a god, nothing more. If the theist wishes to draw monumental implications from this… — George H. Smith 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
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
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
Our civilization is not Christian. It does not come from the skies. It is not a result of inspiration. It is the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Theism is a conclusion, so is atheism - none of these two conclusions is the product of serious investigation - one is… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Imagine a world in which generations of human beings come to believe that certain films were made by God or that specific… — Sam Harris 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
A giant as we hoped, in truth, a dwarf; A barrel of slop that shines on Lethe's wharf', Which at first seemed… — Edgar Lee Masters Copy Share Image
Atheism, a religion dedicated to its own sense of smug superiority. — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image