Are science and religion converging? No. There are modern scientists whose words sound religious but whose beliefs, on close examination, turn out… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“The orthodox tend to think that people who, like the postmodernists and me, believe neither in God nor in some suitable substitute,… — Richard M. Rorty Copy Share Image
“From this simplest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
To give oneself ernestly to securing righteousness and justice among the people, and while respecting the gods and demons, to keep aloof… — Confucius Copy Share Image
I can hope that this long sad story, this progression of priests and ministers and rabbis and ulamas and imams and bonzes… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
What could be more foolish than to base one's entire view of life on ideas that, however plausible at the time, now… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
What holds for adults holds even more for children, sensitive and conscious of differences. I certainly hope that the Board of Education… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“I believe that the duel between Christianity and atheism is the most important in the world. I further believe that the struggle… — William F. Buckley Copy Share Image
A major function of fundamentalist religion is to bolster deeply insecure and fearful people. This is done by justifying a way of… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
Our soldiers did not go to some foreign country and risk their lives in vain and defend our Constitution so that decades… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
I was lucky to wander into evolutionary theory, one of the most exciting and important of all scientific fields. I had never… — Stephen Jay Gould 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
There is no logical impossibility in the hypothesis that the world sprang into being five minutes ago, exactly as it then was,… — Bertrand Russell 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
If all religions displayed peace in action rather than displaying violence and adamancy towards a certain doctrine. Most people would disagree with… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
“The science of this world, which has become a great power, has, especially in the last century, analysed everything divine handed down… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
The reasoning isn't crazy. It's technically correct. If you're being true to the idea that government must not take positions on religious… — Jack Balkin Copy Share Image
Scientology, how about that? You hold on to the tin cans and then this guy asks you a bunch of questions, and… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Since it is no longer permissible to disparage any single faith or creed, let us start disparaging all of them. A religion… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“He is an atheist anyone who does not believe in my god and the wrath of god is upon him; I am… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
Who knows whether, if I had given up smoking, I should really have become the strong perfect man I imagined? Perhaps it… — Italo Svevo Copy Share Image
It is fashionable to wax apocalyptic about the threat to humanity posed by the AIDS virus, "mad cow" disease, and many others,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“If we had spent our time on our children education rather than praying; we would have had a three times more educated… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
"Heresy," by the way, simply means "choice." It came to mean "thoughtcrime," implying it was blasphemy to presume to choose your own… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
The lesson taught us by these kindly commentators on my present experience is that dogmatic faith compels the best minds and hearts… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
In that we say he [Christ] made whole the lame, the paralytic, and those born blind, we seem to say what is… — Justin Martyr Copy Share Image
Only the very ignorant are perfectly satisfied that they know. To the common man the great problems are easy. He has no… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Much terror in religion is not the will of god, it is created by power hungry clerics who thirst for absolute power… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
Do not feed children on maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them nature... Do not terrify them in early life with the… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
The Christian take on Hellfire seems less dramatic than the Muslim vision, which I grew up with, but Christian magical thinking appeals… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
To bear many children is considered not only a religious blessing but also an investment. The greater their number, some Indians reason,… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
“In his numerous historical and Scriptural works Bauer rejects all supernatural religion, and represents Christianity as a natural product of the mingling… — Joseph McCabe Copy Share Image
In theology, the state of a luckless mortal prenatally damned. The doctrine of reprobation was taught by Calvin, whose joy in it… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols -- it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“[ Taken from a BBC documentary ] Tariq was born in Lahore, now in Pakistan, then part of British-ruled India, in 1943.… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
Some ... sexist evil probably predates religion and can be ascribed to our biology, but there is no question that religion promulgates… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Religious tolerance has developed more as a consequence of the impotence of religions to impose their dogmas on each other than as… — Sidney Hook Copy Share Image
There is no ground for supposing that matter and energy existed before [the Big Bang] and were suddenly galvanized into action. For… — E. T. Whittaker Copy Share Image
“For those who talks about the perfection of god in making human… Its his success after billion years of experiments out of… — er.teji Copy Share Image
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