I learned very early on that it's necessary but not sufficient for scientists to go to school board meetings and say, 'We… — Eugenie Scott Copy Share Image
In a liberal scientific society, to claim that you are above error is the height of irresponsibility. — Jonathan Rauch 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
No religion is suddenly rejected by any people; it is rather gradually outgrown. None sees a religion die; dead religions are like… — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
Some Arrows slay but whom they strike - But this slew all but him - Who so appareled his Escape - Too… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
I despise those shallow religious comics. Dennis the Menace, for instance, is the most shallow. When they show him praying - I… — Charles M. Schulz Copy Share Image
Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Though aware that there is nothing in the universe that suggests any purpose for humanity, one way that we can find a… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
When philosophic reason is clear and certain by intuition or necessary induction, no subsequent revelation supported by prophecies or miracles can supersede… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I cannot help esteem The 'Bird within the Hand' Superior to the one The 'Bush' may yield me Or may not Too… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
I am anxious to see the doctrine of one god commenced in our state. But the population of my neighborhood is too… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If there be a mind that, not perceiving in the narratives we have compared the fingermarks of tradition, and hence the legendary… — David Friedrich Strauss Copy Share Image
There is a court to which I shall appeal: the court of public opinion. — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
Freedom of religion, as the Founding Fathers saw it, was not just the right to associate oneself with a certain denomination but… — Norman Cousins 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
Whatever you have to do to have a good time, let's get on with it, so long as it doesn't cause a… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
The Republicans hardly need a party and the cumbersome cadre of low-level officials that form one; they have a bankroll as large… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
All through the centuries scholars and scientists have been imprisoned, tortured and burned alive for some discovery which seemed to conflict with… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Through inculcating the notion that sacrifice is a virtue, Christianity has succeeded in convincing many people that misery incurred through sacrifice is… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
A comely female inhabiting the Mohammedan Paradise to make things cheery for the good Mussulman, whose belief in her existence marks a… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
It has been asserted, that a moral Atheist would be a monster beyond the power of nature to create: I reply, that… — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
