Atheist Quotes

1309 Atheist quotes by 656 unique authors

Wherever morality is based on theology, wherever the right is made dependent on divine authority, the most immoral, unjust, infamous things can be justified and… — Ludwig Feuerbach
I cannot see why we should expect an infinite God to do better in another world than he does in this. — Robert Green Ingersoll
(When asked merely if they accept evolution, 45 percent of Americans say yes. The figure is 70 percent in China.) When the movie Jurassic Park… — Carl Sagan
The politicians and the religious leaders and the weapons scientists have been at it for a long time and they've made a thorough mess of… — Carl Sagan
Life is but a momentary glimpse of the wonder of this astonishing universe, and it is sad to see so many dreaming it away on… — Carl Sagan
In many cultures it is customary to answer that God created the universe out of nothing. But this is mere temporizing. If we wish courageously… — Carl Sagan
Many statements about God are confidently made by theologians on grounds that today at least sound specious. Thomas Aquinas claimed to prove that God cannot… — Carl Sagan
We should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain decency, humility and… — Carl Sagan
It means nothing to be open to a proposition we don't understand. — Carl Sagan
If some good evidence for life after death were announced, I'd be eager to examine it; but it would have to be real scientific data,… — Carl Sagan
If you want to save your child from polio, you can pray or you can inoculate....Try science. — Carl Sagan
Since World War II, Japan has spawned enormous numbers of new religions featuring the supernatural.... In Thailand, diseases are treated with pills manufactured from pulverized… — Carl Sagan
In Italy, the Inquisition was condemning people to death until the end of the eighteenth century, and inquisitional torture was not abolished in the Catholic… — Carl Sagan
At the extremes it is difficult to distinguish pseudoscience from rigid, doctrinaire religion. — Carl Sagan
Is it fair to be suspicious of an entire profession because of a few bad apples? There are at least two important differences, it seems… — Carl Sagan
Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history. — Carl Sagan
Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species - back to the invention of stone tools and the domestication of fire… — Carl Sagan
The annoying thing about being an atheist is that you'll never have the satifaction of saying to believers, 'I told you so.' — Mark Steel
Genuine blasphemy, genuine in spirit and not purely verbal, is the product of partial belief, and is as impossible to the complete atheist as to… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
An atheist has to know more than I know. An atheist is someone who knows there is no God. — Carl Sagan
You ask people, do you pray to a person or God. If you say yes to that, you're religious by, presumably, anybody's standards of your… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
The ultimate creative thinking technique is to think like God. If you're an atheist, pretend how God would do it. — Frank Lloyd Wright
Then there are the fanatical atheists whose intolerance is of the same kind as the intolerance of the religious fanatics and comes from the same… — Albert Einstein
What separates me from most so-called atheists is a feeling of utter humility toward the unattainable secrets of the harmony of the cosmos. — Albert Einstein
It's odd that the word 'atheist' even exist. I don't play golf, is there a word for non-golf players ? — Neil deGrasse Tyson

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