Thought, without the data on which to structure that thought, leads nowhere. — Victor J. Stenger Data Copy Share Image
Fifteen years of skepticism has done more for me than 20 years of force-fed religion and 30 years of indifference in between. — Victor J. Stenger Atheism Copy Share Image
Is there a place in a church where you leave your brains when you enter? — Victor J. Stenger Brain Copy Share Image
Debating is not an honest intellectual exercise. It's like a trial in which the goal is not to get to the truth… — Victor J. Stenger Argument Copy Share Image
The so-called mysteries of quantum mechanics are in its philosophical interpretation, not in its mathematics. — Victor J. Stenger Interpretation Copy Share Image
Saying the universe is eternal simply is saying that it has no beginning or end, not that it had a beginning an… — Victor J. Stenger Ends Copy Share Image
People want to be at the center of the Universe...and they're going to flock to anybody who tells them that. — Victor J. Stenger Atheism Copy Share Image
Nature is capable of building complex structures by processes of self-organization; simplicity begets complexity. — Victor J. Stenger Architecture Copy Share Image
The problem is that people think faith is something to be admired. In fact, faith means you believe in something for which… — Victor J. Stenger Belief Copy Share Image
With pantheism...the deity is associated with the order of nature or the universe itself...when modern scientists such as Einstein and Stephen Hawking… — Victor J. Stenger Deities Copy Share Image
Assuming the universe came from nothing, it is empty to begin with... Only by the constant action of an agent outside the… — Victor J. Stenger Action Copy Share Image
The belief in supernatural forces remains to this day a yoke on the neck of humanity, but at least Thales made it… — Victor J. Stenger Atheism Copy Share Image
It was not that I thought I was smarter. I had simply explored science and found what seemed to me a far… — Victor J. Stenger Atheism Copy Share Image
“All great discoveries in experimental physics have been due to the intuition of men who made free use of models, which were… — Victor J. Stenger Discoveries Copy Share Image
In fact, current cosmological observations indicate that the average density of matter and energy in the universe is equal, within measurement errors,… — Victor J. Stenger Atheism Copy Share Image
Proof is not required to believe [in a god]. But some sign, some evidence is needed. None exists... Find some inkling of… — Victor J. Stenger Believe Copy Share Image
I have characterized Ross as exemplifying an extreme position among theistic scientists. However, he is not so extreme as to promote the… — Victor J. Stenger Acting Copy Share Image
A scenario is suggested by which the universe and its laws could have arisen naturally from nothing. Current cosmology suggests that no… — Victor J. Stenger Atheism Copy Share Image
While science continually uncovers new mysteries, it has removed much of what was once regarded as deeply mysterious. Although we certainly do… — Victor J. Stenger Atheism Copy Share Image
Reality is what kicks back when you kick it. This is just what physicists do with their particle accelerators. We kick reality… — Victor J. Stenger Agree Copy Share Image
Any strategy that attempts to reinforce faith by undermining science is also doomed to failure. Showing that some scientific theory is wrong… — Victor J. Stenger Alternatives Copy Share Image
The battle over the validity of evolution has been publicly posed as a scientific one. However, you will find little sign of… — Victor J. Stenger Atheism Copy Share Image
But, as we have seen, movement does not require a mover, and modern quantum mechanics has shown that not all effects require… — Victor J. Stenger Causes Copy Share Image
In short, evolution is as close to being a scientific fact as is possible for any theory, given that science is open… — Victor J. Stenger Atheism Copy Share Image
“The myth of quantum consciousness sits well with many whose egos have made it impossible for them to accept the insignificant place… — Victor J. Stenger Conscience Copy Share Image
Just because quantum mechanics is weird does not mean that everything that is weird is quantum mechanics. — Victor J. Stenger Doe Copy Share Image
Selling eternal life is an unbeatable business, with no customers ever asking for their money back after the goods are not delivered. — Victor J. Stenger Asking Copy Share Image
Scientists have practical reasons for wishing that religion and science be kept separate. They can see nothing but trouble ... if they… — Victor J. Stenger Atheistic Copy Share Image
When people start using science to argue for their specific beliefs and delusions, to try to claim that they're supported by science,… — Victor J. Stenger Arguing Copy Share Image
In a poll taken in 1998, only 7 percent of the members of the US National Academy of Sciences, the elite of… — Victor J. Stenger Academy Copy Share Image
Those who use the Bible as a reference for moral behavior are simply cherry-picking those teachings, such as the Golden Rule, that… — Victor J. Stenger Behavior Copy Share Image
Any attempt at understanding humanity must include an explanation of the hold that supernatural belief continues to have on most of the… — Victor J. Stenger Atheism Copy Share Image
Unlike those theists who at least pay lip service to science and scientific method, Johnson is out to convict science of fraud… — Victor J. Stenger Convicts Copy Share Image
Alternative explanations are always welcome in science, if they are better and explain more. Alternative explanations that explain nothing are not welcome...… — Victor J. Stenger Alternatives Copy Share Image
I do not think science has to make any apologies. It looks at the world and tells it like it is. And… — Victor J. Stenger Apologies Copy Share Image
Until recent times, absence of evidence for his [Jehovah's] existence has not been sufficient to rule him out. However, we now have… — Victor J. Stenger Absence Copy Share Image
Define self-awareness and tell me what it is about it that requires something more than a material explanation. I do not accept… — Victor J. Stenger Accepting Copy Share Image
To most theistic believers, human life can have no meaning in a universe without God. Quite sincerely, and with understandable yearning for… — Victor J. Stenger Atheism Copy Share Image
The argument from design stands or falls on whether it can be demonstrated that some aspect of the universe such as its… — Victor J. Stenger Argument Copy Share Image
Scientific evidence for God's existence is being claimed today by theists, many of whom carry respectable scientific or philosophical credentials. He who… — Victor J. Stenger Answers Copy Share Image
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