We should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I suppose people hadn't really thought each decade should have its own character and be different from the others till the 1920s,… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
The atheist does not say 'there is no God,' but he says 'I know not what you mean by God; I am… — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
When a man is freed of religion, he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
God's trustiest lieutenants often lack official credentials. They may be professed atheists who are also men of honour and high public spirit. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It is said that men may not be the dreams of the god, but rather that the gods are the dreams of… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
When the course of experience made me see that there is no saviour and no special grace, no remission beyond the human,… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
An atheist chaplain would be the perfect vehicle for convincing wounded warriors that they should end their lives because there's nothing in… — Gordon Klingenschmitt Copy Share Image
I believe in God the way I believe in quarks. People whose business it is to know about quantum physics or religion… — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
“Regardless of your religious beliefs, you should never tell a mourning mother that it was "God's plan." For some people, that can… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
I went through the standard scientific atheist phase when I was about 14. I bought into that package deal of science equals atheism. — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
Take Bach or Schubert: Their music was dedicated to God but filled and shaped their worldly lives. If you are a committed… — Martin Walser Copy Share Image
She thought there were no Gods; no one was to blame; and so she evolved this atheist's religion of doing good for… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
If you look within the United States, religion seems to make you a better person. Yet atheist societies do very well -… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
“I’ve never known a tranquil atheist. Don’t they always look like they just sat on a tack?” — Vicki Covington Copy Share Image
Atheists are the new gays; in the closet and pretty much disqualified from public office. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
(...) contemporary art has become a kind of alternative religion for atheists. (...) For many art world insiders and art aficionados of… — Sarah Thornton Copy Share Image
An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Some are Atheists by Neglect; others are so by Affectation; they, that think there is no God at some times; do not… — Benjamin Whichcote Copy Share Image