Scarcely was I arrived at fifteen years of age, when, after having doubted in turn of different tenets, according as I found… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
It is better to kill the barbarian during his coming than to tell your children that there was culture, but the barbarians… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
The frightful engines of ecclesiastical councils, of diabolical malice, and Calvinistical good-nature never failed to terrify me exceedingly whenever I thought of… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Religion reminds me of a lace condom. While lovingly crafted, it’s not designed for pleasure; unless inflated with fervour, it collapses; one… — Lowestoft Thellow Copy Share Image
The religious hypothesis, therefore, must be considered only as a particular method of accounting for the visible phenomena of the universe: but… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“The human brain has the unique ability to doubt the reality presented to itself. To comprehend the dissonance between ideas and the… — Autumn Christian Copy Share Image
Propaganda by censorship takes two forms: the selective control of information to favour a particular viewpoint, and the deliberate doctoring of information… — James A.C. Brown Copy Share Image
Any political regime allowing a person to behave obsequiously to it may not be reputable at all. There is no other choice… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
“The claim of fine tuning is subjective. As I stated before, no measurement in physics is perfect. The amount of precision we… — G.M. Jackson Copy Share Image
“Atheism is partly the result of bad theology, an unpaid bill resulting from failures in depicting God. It is not surprising that… — Clark H. Pinnock Copy Share Image
Religions have been universal in the sense that all the people we know anything about have had a religion. But the differences… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“This rock has seen billions of years of living organisms and will see many more once we die and turn to dirt.… — Jon Morrison Copy Share Image
That there is much suffering in the world no one disputes. Which is more likely, that pain and evil are the result… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
About 120 million of us place the big bang 2,500 years after the Babylonians and Sumerians learned to brew beer. If our… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
It doesn't seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals,… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Whether you interpret the Bible as literature or as the final word of whatever God may be, Christianity has given us an… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
You cannot be both sane and well educated and disbelieve in evolution. The evidence is so strong that any sane, educated person… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It is a war of light vs. darkness, of Christ vs. antichrist, the Word of God vs. secular humanism. There will be… — John Hagee Copy Share Image
The present Luddism over genetic engineering may die a natural death as the computer-illiterate generation is superseded… I fear that, if the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
This is Darrow, Inadequately scrawled, with his young, old heart, And his drawl, and his infinite paradox And his sadness, and kindness,… — Edgar Lee Masters Copy Share Image
The worker who knows the cause of his misery, who understands the make-up of our iniquitous social and industrial system can do… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Ah, snug lie those that slumber Beneath Conviction's roof. Their floors are sturdy lumber, Their windows weatherproof. But I sleep cold forever… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
The chimpanzee and the human share about 99.5 percent of their evolutionary history, yet most human thinkers regard the chimp as a… — Robert Trivers Copy Share Image
Don't say anything about this to anybody. Any one would say that I am trying to play the good-natured philosopher. I am… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place, (Portentous sight!) the owlet Atheism, sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon, drops his blue-fringed… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Which is better: to have fun with fungi or to have Idiocy with ideology, to have wars because of words, to have… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I think only an idiot can be an atheist. We must admit that there exists an incomprehensible power or force with limitless… — Christian B. Anfinsen Copy Share Image
Science reveals where religion conceals. Where religion purports to explain, it actually resorts to tautology. To assert that "God did it" is… — Peter Atkins Copy Share Image
Those are not at all to be tolerated who deny the being of God. Promises, covenants, and oaths, which are the bonds… — John Locke Copy Share Image
The clear and perfect truth no man has seen, nor will there be anyone who knows about the gods and what I… — Xenophanes Copy Share Image
“It is odd that the Bible says, ‘God created man,’ whereas it is the other way round: man has created God. It… — Béla Bartók Copy Share Image
The only perfect circle on the human body is the eye. When a baby is born it's so perfect, but when it… — Richey Edwards Copy Share Image
The Bible may, indeed does, contain a warrant for trafficking in humans, for ethnic cleansing, for slavery, for bride-price, and for indiscriminate… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“People will say,"there's heaven and hell", and they take it so serious that they look so sorrowful with penitence. I would rather… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I would not for my life destroy one star of human hope, but I want it so that when a poor woman… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Christianity is like over planning an expensive, elaborate, invitation only, surprise party for a friend of a friend of a friend who… — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image
I've never claimed there is no god. I've simply stated I don't believe in one. The burden of proof is on those… — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image
I am thoroughly convinced that when the last chapter of humanity is written, we will find that the implications of atheism, i.e.,… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
If it were true that Christianity and science were incompatible, there would be no Christians who were respected scientists. If fact, about… — Jeffrey Burton Russell Copy Share Image
