Victor J. Stenger Quotes

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• Reality is what kicks back when you kick it. This is just what physicists do with their particle accelerators. We kick reality and feel it…
• People want to be at the center of the Universe...and they're going to flock to anybody who tells them that.
• Assuming the universe came from nothing, it is empty to begin with... Only by the constant action of an agent outside the universe, such as…
• In fact, current cosmological observations indicate that the average density of matter and energy in the universe is equal, within measurement errors, to the critical…
• Nature is capable of building complex structures by processes of self-organization; simplicity begets complexity.
• The problem is that people think faith is something to be admired. In fact, faith means you believe in something for which you have no…
• Selling eternal life is an unbeatable business, with no customers ever asking for their money back after the goods are not delivered.
• Those who use the Bible as a reference for moral behavior are simply cherry-picking those teachings, such as the Golden Rule, that they have independently…
• The so-called mysteries of quantum mechanics are in its philosophical interpretation, not in its mathematics.
• Saying the universe is eternal simply is saying that it has no beginning or end, not that it had a beginning an infinite time ago
• I do not think science has to make any apologies. It looks at the world and tells it like it is. And we all live…
• Thought, without the data on which to structure that thought, leads nowhere.
• When people start using science to argue for their specific beliefs and delusions, to try to claim that they're supported by science, then scientists at…
• Proof is not required to believe [in a god]. But some sign, some evidence is needed. None exists... Find some inkling of evidence. There is…
• Until recent times, absence of evidence for his [Jehovah's] existence has not been sufficient to rule him out. However, we now have enough knowledge that…
• Alternative explanations are always welcome in science, if they are better and explain more. Alternative explanations that explain nothing are not welcome... Note how science…
• Any attempt at understanding humanity must include an explanation of the hold that supernatural belief continues to have on most of the human race.
• Any strategy that attempts to reinforce faith by undermining science is also doomed to failure. Showing that some scientific theory is wrong will not prove…
• But, as we have seen, movement does not require a mover, and modern quantum mechanics has shown that not all effects require a cause. And…
• In short, evolution is as close to being a scientific fact as is possible for any theory, given that science is open - ended and…

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