Science and reason liberate us from the shackles of superstition by offering us a framework for understanding our shared humanity. Ultimately, we… — Gad Saad Copy Share Image
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“Atheistic existentialism, of which I am a representative, declares with greater consistency that if God does not exist there is at least… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
We are the offspring of history, and must establish our own paths in this most diverse and interesting of conceivable universes—one indifferent… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The values imposed on you, such as statism, motherland, religion, traditions etc - are the instruments to manipulate you. Don't idolize the… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
The graphic emphasis placed on those first lines is rather hard to square with the proposition that the monument expresses no particular… — John Paul Stevens Copy Share Image
The whole history of the last thousands of years has been a history of religious persecutions and wars, pogroms, jihads, crusades. I… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
I could not do otherwise without transcending the limits prescribed by the Constitution for the President and without feeling that I might… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
“Mankind's most dangerous enemy is the human imagination. What their minds can imagine is far more malicious than the deepest furnaces of… — C.J. Anderson Copy Share Image
“There is one element in Christianity which was not borrowed from Paganism -- religious intolerance. Referring to Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism, a… — John E. Remsburg Copy Share Image
The belief in eternal torment, still subscribed to by fundamentalist Christian denominations, undoubtedly ranks as the most vicious and reprehensible doctrine of… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
Right now religion has the romantic aura of the forbidden - Christ is cool. We need to bring it into the schools,… — Katha Pollitt Copy Share Image
I suspect the reason is that most people [...] have a residue of feeling that Darwinian evolution isn't quite big enough to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
All my life I have made it a rule never to permit a religious man or woman take for granted that his… — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
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Scientific research is based on the idea that everything that takes place is determined by laws of Nature, and therefore this holds… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
When talking about unicorns, minotaurs, or compassionate conservatives, one does not normally have to prove their non-existence; the mere lack of any… — Peter Stone Copy Share Image
I was convinced that, besides millions of frank unbelievers, there are today large numbers of half-believers to whom religion is a source… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
We must soften into a credulity below the milkiness of infancy to think all men virtuous. We must be tainted with a… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Globed from the atoms falling slow or swift I see the suns, I see the systems lift Their forms; and even the… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
I received your letter of June 10th. I have never talked to a Jesuit priest in my life and I am astonished… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The intelligent beings in these regions should therefore not be surprised if they observe that their locality in the universe satisfies the… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other Religions, may establish with the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
At age fourteen I was asking questions. When the answers failed to satisfy me, I searched elsewhere for different answers and found… — Hemant Mehta Copy Share Image
Religion claims to be in possession of an absolute truth; but its history is a history of errors and heresies. It gives… — Ernst Cassirer Copy Share Image
History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Persistently leavening public opinion, in a grossly superstitious age, with the theological doctrine of popular preachers, that woman is a sex of… — Ellen Battelle Dietrick Copy Share Image
The truth is that male religious leaders have had - and still have - an option to interpret holy teachings either to… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
..when, in my philosophical disquisitions, I deny a providence and a future state, I undermine not the foundations of society, but advance… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I refuse to believe in a god who is the primary cause of conflict in the world, preaches racism, sexism, homophobia, and… — Mark Fuhrman Copy Share Image
Your most bitter enemies are the values imposed on you without your choice. Those idols have taken away your freedom from you;… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
But a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of the Jewish religion, before his principles were departed from… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Autocracy cannot do without its twin agents: a hangman and a priest, the first to suppress popular resistance by force, the second… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
“atheism” ... reminds one of children, assuring everyone who is ready to listen to them that they are not afraid of the… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
We have the right not to tolerate the intolerant. We should tolerate even them whenever we can do so without running a… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
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He was extremely reticent in his religious sentiments, at least in all that he wrote. Allusions to his belief are rarely, if… — Daniel Coit Gilman Copy Share Image
Atheism, I began to realize, rested on a less-than-satisfactory evidential basis. The arguments that had once seemed bold, decisive, and conclusive increasingly… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
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