I believe that the more thoroughly science is studied, the further does it take us from anything comparable to atheism. — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
So natural to mankind is intolerance ... that religious freedom has hardly anywhere been practically realized. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The utter folly of our time is lamentable, that men should think to assist God with human help and to protect the… — Hilary of Poitiers 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
In the fullness of time, educated people will believe there is no soul independent of the body, and hence no life after… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
Science is advanced by proposing and testing hypothesis, not by declaring questions unsolvable. — Nick Matzke Copy Share Image
People are bursting out of the closet, rejecting their parents' wishes to keep the faith. Atheism is becoming mainstream. — Kevin Smith Copy Share Image
Christianity is most admirably adapted to the training of slaves, to the perpetuation of a slave society. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The whole point of religious faith, its strength and chief glory, is that it does not depend on rational justification. The rest… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
But every state, says an inquisitor, has established some religion. No two, say I, have established the same. Is this a proof… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Custom is custom: it is built of brass, boiler-iron, granite; facts, reasonings, arguments have no more effect upon it than the idle… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
People say there are no atheists in foxholes. A lot of people think this is a good argument against atheism. Personally, I… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
No tax in any amount, large or small, can be levied to support any religious activities or institutions, whatever they may be… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
When they have opened a gap in the ... wall of separation between the Garden of the Church and the wildernes of… — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
Religious reasons, which is no reason. I notice Skeptic had a review of Dennett's book, Darwin's Dangerous Idea. Religious reasons amount to… — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
“This is a small episode in an unending argument between those who know they are right and therefore claim the mandate of… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Quantum healing is healing the bodymind from a quantum level. That means from a level which is not manifest at a sensory… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“A Muslim who prays five times a day and yet beats his wife at home, is no religious person. A Christian who… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The church of this country is not only indifferent to the wrongs of the slave, it actually takes sides with the oppressors…… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
But they that hold God to be [an incorporeal substance]do absolutely make God to be nothing at all. But how? Were they… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
While we destroyed the Centre Party, we have not only brought thousands of priests back into the Church, but to millions of… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The truly great consider, first, how they may gain the approbation of God, and, secondly, that of their own conscience. Having done… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The argument from design is ultimately an appeal to miraculous causes, i.e., causes that do not, and cannot, occur in the natural… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
Everyone wants to be foremost in this future-and yet death and the stillness of death are the only things certain and common… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image