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An atheist, like a Christian, holds that we can know whether or not there is a God. The Christian holds that we can know there… — Bertrand Russell
To say that we cannot know anything about God is to say something about God; it is to say that if there is a God,… — J. Budziszewski
Agnosticism is epistemologically self-contradictory on its own assumptions because its claim to make no assertion about ultimate reality rests upon a most comprehensive assertion about… — Cornelius Van Til
The great trouble is that the preachers get the children from six to seven years of age and then it is almost impossible to do… — Thomas A. Edison
It is the best book ever written on the subject. There is nothing like it! — Thomas A. Edison
"Cynicism," like "heresy" and "heterodoxy" and "atheism" and "agnosticism" and "paganism" and "heathenism," is above all else a way for organized orthodoxy's caste of official… — Kenny Smith
But lack of evidence, if indeed evidence is lacking, is no grounds for atheism. No one thinks there is good evidence for the proposition that… — Alvin Plantinga
We need to be agnostics first and then there is some chance at arriving at a sensible system of belief. — D. Elton Trueblood
We all have our beliefs or our agnosticism. — Nicolas Roeg
Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task… — Anatole France
I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they… — Sigmund Freud
Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning. — Bill Gates
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant… — Clarence Darrow
The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic. — Charles Darwin
I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the… — Charles Darwin
We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be… — Charles Darwin
There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so… — Richard Dawkins
There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer. — E. M. Forster
Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves… — Robert A. Heinlein
We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand. — Eric Hoffer
Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that… — Thomas Jefferson
I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time. — Friedrich Nietzsche
I oscillate between agnosticism and atheism. — Brad Pitt
I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose. — Orson Welles
Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable. — Oscar Wilde

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