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- 'Take offense at the drop of a hat' is the unwritten eleventh commandment.
- The less you think, the more you believe.
- Although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin, Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.
- [It] is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.
- We should learn to understand natural selection, so that we can oppose any tendency to apply it to human politics.
- I am not advocating a morality based on evolution.
- You cannot be both sane and well educated and disbelieve in evolution. The evidence is so strong that any sane, educated person has got to…
- Evolution is a fact, as securely established as any in science, and he who denies it betrays woeful ignorance and lack of education, which likely…
- The distribution of species on islands and continents throughout the world is exactly what you'd expect if evolution was a fact. The distribution of fossils…
- There is no reason for believing that any sort of gods exist, and quite good reasons for believing that they do not exist and never…
- Science shares with religion the claim that it answers deep questions about origins, the nature of life, and the cosmos. But there the resemblance ends.…
- I am very hostile to religion because it is enormously dominant, especially in American life. And I don't buy the argument that, well, it's harmless.…
- My last vestige of 'hands off religion' respect disappeared in the smoke and choking dust of September 11th 2001, followed by the 'National Day of…
- To an honest judge, the alleged convergence between religion and science is a shallow, empty, hollow, spin-doctored sham.
- The alternative which I favor is to renounce all euphemisms and grasp the nettle of the word atheism itself, precisely because it is a taboo…
- In childhood our credulity serves us well. It helps us to pack, with extraordinary rapidity, our skulls full of the wisdom of our parents and…
- Creationism: God's gift to the ignorant.
- All religious beliefs seem weird to people not brought up in them.
- Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think...
- Faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.
- Faith is an evil precisely because it requires no justification and brooks no argument.
- Those who wish to base their morality literally on the Bible have either not read it or not understood it...
- A designer God cannot be used to explain organized complexity because any God capable of designing anything would have to be complex enough to demand…
- The time has come for people of reason to say: Enough is Enough! Religious faith discourages independent thought, it's divisive and it's dangerous.
- Not only is science corrosive to religion, but religion is corrosive to science. It teaches people to be satisfied with trivial non-explanations and blinds them…
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- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- It is not the Head but the Heart that is the Seat of Atheism. — Mary Astell
- A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. — Francis Bacon
- Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God. — Francis Bacon
- I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is… — Francis Bacon
- Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales,… — Francis Bacon
- You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God. — Tammy Faye Bakker
- People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine… — Mikhail Bakunin
- Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of… — Douglas Adams
- Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves. — Brigitte Bardot
- Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination. — Edward Abbey