Science is different to all other systems of thought because you dont need faith in it, you can check that it works. — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
It was the schoolboy who said, ""Faith is believing what you know ain't so."" — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Be sure to lie to your kids about the benevolent, all-seeing Santa Claus. It will prepare them for an adulthood of believing… — Scott Dikkers Copy Share Image
The most curious social convention of the great age in which we live is the one to the effect that religious opinions… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All kinds of frankness and honesty are terrible crimes in the eyes of society. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Mr. Lincoln had no hope, and no faith, in the usual acceptation of those words. — Mary Todd Lincoln Copy Share Image
My hands are small, but they're not yours, they are my own... I am never broken. — Jewel Copy Share Image
What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The idea that God is a worthy recipient of our gratitude for the blessings of life but should not be held accountable… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
If you must believe in anything, believe in yourselves, in your senses, in your minds. To accept a religious creed is to… — Marilla Ricker Copy Share Image
By honest I don't mean that you only tell what's true. But you make clear the entire situation. You make clear all… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Sufism is not a religion or a philosophy, it is neither deism nor atheism, nor is it a moral, nor a special… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
“So you are Catholic? Didn't know that. I am nothing, I said. God knows God is no friend of mine. But I… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
This is regrettable indeed for a nation that aspires to teach democracy to other nations, because, as Burke said: "Example is the… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
The atheists are for the most part imprudent and misguided scholars who reason badly who, not being able to understand the Creation,… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Well it's fairly straightforward: there isn't one [a god]. And there's no evidence for one, no reason to believe that there is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“Religion has ever filled the mind of man with darkness, and kept him in ignorance of his real duties and true interests.… — Paul Henri Thiry d'Holbach Copy Share Image
“You frequently state, and in your letter you imply, that I have developed a completely one-sided outlook and look at everything in… — Rosalind Franklin Copy Share Image
To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
Of the six men who have done most to make America the wonder and the joy she is to all of us,… — John Chadwick Copy Share Image
“Science has never killed or persecuted a single person for doubting or denying its teaching, and most of these teaching have been… — Gratis P. Spencer Copy Share Image
Of all the differences between the Old World and the New, this is perhaps the most salient. Half the wars of Europe,… — James Bryce Copy Share Image
“Just say it, she thought. Say what everyone in this bunker is thinking. Say what we all know to be true. The… — C.J. Anderson Copy Share Image
To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
There's a Bible on that shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire - poison and antidote. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We live our lives for our life's sake, rather than for illusions about rewards and satisfaction after we're dead. — PZ Myers Copy Share Image
I desire that on no occasion ... shall demonstrations of a political or religious character be made before my remains. — Francesc Ferrer i Guardia Copy Share Image
It turns out that the word atheism means much less than I had thought. It is merely the lack of theism. — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
[That] my body be buried as cheaply as possible and no speeches be permitted at my funeral. — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
When something looks cheap, it looks cheap and that is all, and there is no justification for this cheapness. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
If a plane crashes and 99 people die while 1 survives, it is called a miracle. Should the families of the 99 think so? — Judith Hayes Copy Share Image
There comes a time in every man's life when he's consumed by the desire to spit on his palms, hoist the black… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The things of this world take up too much of my time, of which indeed I have too little left, to undertake… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“ Alexander Berkman was a self-declared atheist attempting to lift the stultifying fog of the gods from the mind of humankind.” — David Burns Copy Share Image
The Christian god is a being of terrific character - cruel, vindictive, capricious and unjust. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Assent - and you are sane - Demur - and you're straightaway dangerous - and handled with a chain. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Those who share the same values with you are your darlings, not those who share the same blood with you. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
Which is the greater merit, to enlighten the human race, which remains forever, or to save one's fatherland, which is perishable? — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image