Coins Quote by Bill Maher

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 is a barbarous obsidian knife poised over our chests put it in a cabinet and admire it as a work of art, but…

— PZ Myers

Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private 'revelation'.

— Richard Dawkins

Religion has run out of justifications. Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, it no longer offers an explanation of anything important. Where once…

— Christopher Hitchens

“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

Religions contradict one another-on small matters, such as whether we should put on a hat or take one off on entering a house of…

— Carl Sagan

“If we submit everything to reason our religion will be left with nothing mysterious or supernatural. If we offend the principles of reason our…

— Blaise Pascal

“It should go without saying that these rival belief systems [Judaism, Islam, Christianity] are all equally uncontaminated by evidence.”

— Sam Harris

For as spiritual as some people think my books are, I've never really dealt with religious things.

— Mitch Albom

I see religion as a storehouse of lots of really good ideas that a secular world should look at, raid, and learn from.

— Alain de Botton

As I say, if we bring up religion we'll have differences; we'll have arguments; and we'll never be able to get together.

— Malcolm X

We have seen that no religion stands on the basis of things known; none bounds its horizon within the field of human observation; and,…

— Anonymous