The biogeographic evidence for evolution is now so powerful that I have never seen a creationist book, article, or lecture that has… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
I don't think any religion makes any sense and I think people who are into that are really getting duped, and I… — Howard Stern Copy Share Image
“We have barely emerged from centuries of barbarism. It's not a surprise that there are shocking inequities in this world. It is… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“How can we consider ourselves to be rational and proclaim that God is ineffable—beyond our frail human abilities to comprehend him—and in… — Brian Goedken Copy Share Image
Whenever an important event, a revolution, or a calamity turns to the profit of the church, such is always signalised as the… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It would be a crime for me to say that Islam is a backward desert superstition that has no place in modern,… — Ian O'Doherty Copy Share Image
I would fain ask one of these bigotted Infidels, supposing all the great Points of Atheism... were laid together and formed into… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The "terror" of the French Revolution lasted for ten years. The terror that preceded and led to it lasted for a thousand… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Faith is like a pickpocket who loans a person his own money on generous terms.” — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Values are so individual that everyone has distinctive form of theirs. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
The more a nation gets into darkness, the more it's going to hate the light. The more it's going to run from… — Ray Comfort Copy Share Image
I do not deny God, because that word conveys to me no idea, and I cannot deny that which presents to me… — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
To command their professors of astronomy to refute their own observations is to command them not to see what they do see… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
I do not like the reappearance of the Jesuits.... Shall we not have regular swarms of them here, in as many disguises… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The sceptics end in the infidelity which asserts the problem to be insoluble, or in the atheism which denies the existence of… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Creeds like pacifism or anarchism, which seem on the surface to imply a complete renunciation of power, rather encourage this habit of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Tears throw a veil over our faults and allow us to accuse fate without fear or contradiction. — Italo Svevo Copy Share Image
A profession that we are a nation "under God" is identical, for establishment clause purposes, to a profession that we are a… — Alfred Goodwin Copy Share Image
How can any woman believe that a loving and merciful God would, in one breath, command Eve to multiply and replenish the… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The great trouble is that the preachers get the children from six to seven years of age and then it is almost… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
It is a fact of history and of current events that human beings exaggerate, misinterpret, or wrongly remember events. They have also… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
“I regard anti-Semitism as ineradicable and as one element of the toxin with which religion has infected us. Perhaps partly for this… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
May it not suffice for me to say ... that of course like every other man of intelligence and education I do… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Here is the cosmological proof of the existence of God - the design argument of Paley - updated and refurbished. The fine… — Edward Robert Harrison Copy Share Image
The idea of Jehovah was born here... Out of the rude elements of the insignificant thoughts thoughts that are in all men,… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Blindness to suffering is an inherent consequence of natural selection. Nature is neither kind nor cruel but indifferent. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
What would have been the effect upon religion if it had come to us through the minds of women? — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
I am sick of this way of life. The weariness and sadness of old age make it intolerable. I have walked with… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Past and present religious atrocities have occured not because we are evil, but because it is a fact of nature that the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Speaking to a 'non-theist', 'How do you what you don't believe in if you have never read the Bible?'".” — Belle from Kentucky Copy Share Image
For it was by the Will of God that men were made of a certain bodily shape, were given their natures and… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The time has come to knock off this religion business in American politics. There's no end to the mischief that can occur.… — Lowell P. Weicker, Jr Copy Share Image
The Bible, in which these things are taught, favors drunkenness, murder, slavery, lying, stealing and lechery. — Charles Chilton Moore Copy Share Image
“As to the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or do not exist. For many are the… — Diogenes Laertius Copy Share Image
Even though I don't personally believe in the Lord, I try to behave as though He was watching. — Christopher Reeve Copy Share Image