Accepting Quote by B. B. King

One must state it plainly. Religion comes from the period of human pre-history where nobody - not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that…

— Christopher Hitchens

Religion comes from the period of human prehistory where nobody - not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all matter was made from…

— Christopher Hitchens

For a long time it has been known that the first systems of representations with which men have pictured to themselves the world and…

— Emile Durkheim

The first ideas of religion arose, not from contemplation of the works of nature, but from a concern with regard to the events of…

— David Hume

“Scientists gladly accept any new truth demonstrated by evidence, that is, proved by the very law of the cosmos. Not so with any new…

— Luther Burbank

“By all means let us agree that we are pattern-seeking mammals and that, owing to our restless intelligence and inquisitiveness, we will still prefer…

— Christopher Hitchens

The equation of religion with belief is rather recent.

— Arnold J. Toynbee

Since the beginning of time, spirituality and religion have been called to fill in the gaps that science did not understand.

— Dan Brown

Reason bases its decisions on evidence available to everyone, and allows people to disagree when evidence is lacking. Religion will never do that.

— Richard Carrier

Religion, after all, is nothing but an hypothesis framed to account for what is evidentially unaccounted for.

— H. L. Mencken

It is no coincidence that so many religious beliefs date back to times when no science could possibly have accounted satisfactorily for many of…

— James D. Watson

Science deals in evidence and uncertainty. Religion deals in certainty without evidence.

— David Milne