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Religion Quotes by Isaac Asimov
- Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
- Science is dangerous. There is no question but that poison gas, genetic engineering, and nuclear weapons and power stations are terrifying. It may be that…
- I expect death to be nothingness and, for removing me from all possible fears of death, I am thankful to atheism.
- When I die I won't go to heaven or hell; there will just be nothingness.
- Naturally, since [the Sumerians] didn't know what caused the flood anymore than we do, they blamed the gods. (That's the advantage of religion. You're never…
- Every religion seems like a fantasy to outsiders, but as holy truth to those of the faith.
- It is no defense of superstition and pseudoscience to say that it brings solace and comfort to people. . . . If solace and comfort…
- No vision of God and heaven ever experienced by the most exalted prophet can, in my opinion, match the vision of the universe as seen…
- Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the…
- Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
- If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of…
- It is remarkable, Hardin, how the religion of science has grabbed hold.
- It is the chief characteristic of the religion of science that it works.
- Emotionally I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I…
- I have never, in all my life, not for one moment, been tempted toward religion of any kind. The fact is that I feel no…
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- Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants… — Karen Armstrong
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- Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. — Isaac Asimov
- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words. — Francis of Assisi