Half the Christian churches of New York are trying to ruin the free public schools in order to replace them by religious… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Evolution as such is no longer a theory for a modern author. It is as much a fact as that the earth… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
“Man has been evolved and created the gods. Evolved more and decided to destroy all of them.” — Emil A. Zafirov Copy Share Image
During the ages of faith the Church argued, not illogically, that any degree of cruelty towards sinners and heretics was justified, if… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
If there were a god, there would be no need for religion. If there were not a god, there would be no… — Ron Barrier Copy Share Image
Anybody can see that the little money you get is half-wasted, because you cannot spend it to advantage. The worst food comes… — George Holyoake Copy Share Image
The common belief that... the actual relations between religion and science over the last few centuries have been marked by deep and… — Colin Archibald Russell Copy Share Image
Examine the religious principles which have, in fact, prevailed in the world. You will scarcely be persuaded that they are other than… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“When my husband died, because he was so famous and known for not being a believer, many people would come up to… — Ann Druyan Copy Share Image
“Religion reminds me of a lace condom. While lovingly crafted, it’s not designed for pleasure; unless inflated with fervour, it collapses; one… — Lowestoft Thellow Copy Share Image
Medievalism, with its saints and martyrs, its love of self-torture, its wild passion for wounding itself, its gashing with knives, and its… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Intellectuals cannot tolerate the chance event, the unintelligible: they have a nostalgia for the absolute, for a universally comprehensive scheme. — Raymond Aron Copy Share Image
I am as firmly convinced that religions do harm as I am that they are untrue. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Here I swear, and as I break my oath may ... eternity blast me, here I swear that never will I forgive… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the type of which we… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
In those days, in Far Rockaway, there was a youth center for Jewish kids at the temple.... Somebody nominated me for president… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
I prefer rationalism to atheism. The question of God and other objects-of-faith are outside reason and play no part in rationalism, thus… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“God did not create evolution--evolution created God. The evolution of religion is as follows: animism--polytheism--monotheism--agnosticism--atheism. As history progresses, people worship fewer and… — G.M. Jackson Copy Share Image
A drawing, brought by Colonel Coombs, from a sculptured column in a cave-temple in the South of India, represents the first pair… — Godfrey Higgins Copy Share Image
If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion. — Edmond de Goncourt Copy Share Image
“Yes, I'm a materialist. I'm willing to be shown wrong, but that has not happened — yet. And I admit that the… — James Randi Copy Share Image
There is a power in the soul, quite separate from the intellect, which sweeps away or recognizes the marvelous, by which God… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
If this being is omnipotent, then every occurrence, including every human action, every human thought, and every human feeling and aspiration is… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
About what mainly constituted what you ask, it was something other. It was just a certain inclination to meet people. And as… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
Then the Parson might preach, & drink, & sing, And we'd be as happy as birds in the spring; And modest dame… — William Blake Copy Share Image
“Religion doesn't just cloud our minds. It asks us to deliberately deceive ourselves-- to replace reason with its opposite, faith. And when… — James L. Sutter Copy Share Image
Science is a set of methods designed to describe and interpret observed or inferred phenomenon, past or present, and aimed at building… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
The day has gone by when a monk can tear a Hypatia from the pursuit of philosophy and throw her to a… — Ellen Battelle Dietrick Copy Share Image
The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Whenever philosophy has taken into its plan religion, it has ended in skepticism; and whenever religion excludes philosophy, or the spirit of… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
This crime called blasphemy was invented by priests for the purpose of defending doctrines not able to take care of themselves. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“if you truly want to know why I'm helping you, you won't get any easy answers. It's not because I believe in… — Autumn Christian Copy Share Image
Thrust your head into the public street, to gaze on Christian fools with varnish'd faces. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
As women are taking an active part in pressing on the consideration of Congress many narrow sectarian measures, such as more rigid… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
