We must doubt the certainty of everything which passes through the senses, but how much more ought we to doubt things contrary… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
In Israel, the maximum legal penalty for denying the existence of God is one year in prison, while the punishment for denying… — Ward Churchill Copy Share Image
Scientifically speaking, the existence of God is an untenable hypothesis. It's not well-defined, it's completely unnecessary to fit the data, and it… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
I have concluded the evident existence of God, and that my existence depends entirely on God in all the moments of my… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
“In science class we would never look at the evidence against the existence of God, but it seems to be perfectly acceptable… — Scientific American Editors Copy Share Image
“The problem of reconciling human suffering with the existence of God who loves, is only insoluble so long as we attach a… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
No one can accuse Stuart Young of avoiding the big issues - with insight and verve, he tackles head on the existence… — Mark Chadbourn Copy Share Image
“It took me a long time, my lifetime so to speak, to realise that the colour of an eye half seen, or… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
“The Oracle pursued a logical course of confuting theism, and leaving 'a-theism' the negative result. It did not, in the absurd terms… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, science, philosophy, and theology were disciplines largely undifferentiated from one another, and proving the existence of God was… — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share Image
“On Religion and Science: "You cannot answer Berkeley, even if you have annihilated Kant, and yet, perforce, you assume that Berkeley is… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“A friend once asked me why it was that stories about animals and their heroism...are so compelling. ...we love them because they're… — Gwen Cooper Copy Share Image
“It is debatable whether blind faith is truly faith at all. Faith is the perceptive gray area where scientific facts meet an… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“You were born with the right to be happy. You were born with the right to love, to enjoy and to share… — Miguel Ruiz Copy Share Image
“To deny that there are sorrows and rewards after death is to deny the existence of God; since God exists, it must… — Collin de Plancy Copy Share Image
The existence of God is not subjective. He either exists or he doesn’t. It’s not a matter of opinion. You can have… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
The one kind of person I have a lot of trouble understanding is the kind of person that says the existence of… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
I do like talking with friends about big concepts, you know, the stuff that will ruin a party. To me, the party… — James Mercer Copy Share Image
Throughout the world, half of all children go to bed hungry each night and one in seven of God's children is facing… — Thomas Cahill Copy Share Image
Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God, because we cannot see him, as it would be to… — Adam Clarke Copy Share Image
“Yes, the existence of human life is evidence for the existence of God; but it’s much better evidence that our world was… — Jordan Ellenberg Copy Share Image
“I'm not good with the low-level unexplained. I worry at such things. I'm quite relaxed about the great mysteries of the universe;… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Nobody doubts that he exists, though he may doubt the existence of God. If he finds out the truth about himself and… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
The impossibility of conceiving that this grand and wondrous universe, with our conscious selves, arose through chance, seems to me the chief… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“...I am not, however, militant in my atheism. The great English theoretical physicist Paul Dirac is a militant atheist. I suppose he… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
“Jobs tended to be deeply moved by artists who displayed purity, and he became a fan. He invited Ma to play at… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
For me, spirituality includes the belief in things larger than ourselves, an appreciation of nature and beauty, a sensitivity to the world,… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
Here is the cosmological proof of the existence of God - the design argument of Paley - updated and refurbished. The fine… — Edward Robert Harrison Copy Share Image
“…questioning the existence of God may begin because of one’s sense of disappointment rather than because of a line of reasoning. Disappointment… — Gregory E. Ganssle Copy Share Image
To my way of thinking, there is every bit as much evidence for the existence of UFOs as there is for the… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“Once, in the South Atlantic, I saw a whaler in the process of killing a female accompanied by one of her offspring.… — Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen Copy Share Image
There are three points of doctrine the belief of which forms the foundation of all morality. The first is the existence of… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
I would say I was a philosophical boy. Thoughts about 'identical stones' are the earliest philosophical thoughts I remember. But when I… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Copy Share Image
At teenage parties he was always wandering into the garden, sitting on a bench in the dark . . . staring up… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
Maybe the growth of "God" signifies the existence of God. That is: if history naturally pushes people toward moral improvement, toward moral… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
The existence of God is not logically necessary, and yet, on the basis of some profound peculiar empirical order in the universe,… — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
“Ever since Plato most philosophers have considered it part of their business to produce ‘proofs’ of immortality and the existence of God.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“As well, the very religiosity of step 2 is a major problem for many persons. Like steps 3, 5, 6, 7 and… — Charles Bufe Copy Share Image
“It is often said, mainly by the 'no-contests', that although there is no positive evidence for the existence of God, nor is… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
