As you know, the Inquisition is an admirable and wholly Christian invention to make the pope and the monks more powerful and… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“An atheist is someone who is disappointed in his search of god. He is a man who strongly needed god but couldn't… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
But the context of religion is a great background for doing science. In the words of Psalm 19, 'The heavens declare the… — Arthur Leonard Schawlow Copy Share Image
They are mostly Americans and almost all are Protestant. Many have a strong grounding in the Bible. In Jerusalem, they suddenly take… — Amos Elon Copy Share Image
Physics filled me with awe, put me in touch with a sense of original causes. Physics brought me closer to God. That… — Isidor Isaac Rabi 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
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
The trouble is that neutrality is confused with hostility. We're not disrupting churches, or interrupting people's prayers. We're not fighting religion. — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
There are many ways in which people are made aware of their power to believe in the supremacy of Divine guidance and… — Ernst Boris Chain Copy Share Image
Someone once said that if you sat a million monkeys at a million typewriters for a million years, one of them would… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
When the supreme violence of a furious wind upon the sea sweeps over the waters the chief admiral of a fleet along… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
As a Christian, a trained engineer and scientist, and a professor at Emory University, I am embarrassed by Superintendent Kathy Cox's attempt… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
There must be much more going on behind the scenes. The pivotal question is this: What is behind the deep-seated hatred that… — Gerard Verschuuren Copy Share Image
It's easy to sell good news like this, and the authors confidently rely on classic fallacious arguments. They argue by declaration, which… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
“[When asked about his thoughts on gods] I think it's like a movie that was way too popular. It's a story that's… — Eddie Vedder 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
Fred Hoyle and I differ on lots of questions, but on this we agree: a common sense and satisfying interpretation of our… — Owen Gingerich Copy Share Image
Whoever considers the study of anatomy, I believe will never be an atheist; the frame of man's body, and coherence of his… — Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury Copy Share Image
Out of the doctrine of original sin grew the crimes and miseries of asceticism, celibacy and witchcraft; woman becoming the helpless victim… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
As Christians try to force prayer into public schools, they often settle for a 'moment of silence.' But that supposedly innocuous 'moment… — Judith Hayes Copy Share Image
I can't believe it. Maybe there is a God after all. Herbal supplement sales only grew 1 percent last year. The years… — Dean Edell Copy Share Image
Thus, though I dislike to differ with such a great man, Voltaire was simply ludicrous when he said that if god did… — Christopher Hitchens 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
“New struggles. -- After Buddha was dead, they still showed his shadow in a cave for centuries -- a colossal, horrible shadow.… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I finally decided that I'm a creature of emotion as well as of reason. Emotionally, I am an atheist. I don't have… — Isaac Copy Share Image
They felt that science would be corrosive to religious belief and they were worried about it. Damn it, I think they were… — Steven Weinberg 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
One of the great achievements of science has been, if not to make it impossible for intelligent people to be religious, then… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic un-interestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity, the ambiguity,… — John Updike 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
There is nothing so despicable as a secret society that is based upon religious prejudice and that will attempt to defeat a… — William Howard Taft 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
“Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause. I had hoped… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Character is in turn the enduring source of virtue. It stands by itself and excites admiration in others. It is not obedience… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Me, when it comes to religion, I have no God. When I'm cool, I don't need anyone, and when I'm feeling shitty… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
Tolerance is thin gruel compared to the rapture of absolute truths. It's not surprising that religious people are often better protected by… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
If any religion allows the persecution of the people of different faiths, if any religion keeps women in slavery, if any religion… — Taslima Nasrin Copy Share Image
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