Atheist Quote by Christopher Hitchens Download Open image “[E]xceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.” — Christopher Hitchens ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Atheist Claims Demand Evidence Exceptional Science
The weight of evidence for an extraordinary claim must be proportioned to its strangeness. — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
I beg my reader to consider the "evidence" I provide for my case and perhaps feel persuaded as a result. Beyond that I make… — Paul Fry Copy Share Image
“An extraordinary claim requires extraordinary proof. ('On the Extraordinary: An Attempt at Clarification", Zetetic Scholar, Vol. 1, No. 1, p. 11, 1978)” — Marcello Truzzi Copy Share Image
...we are entitled to make almost any reasonable assumption, but should resist making conclusions until evidence requires that we do so. — Steve Allen Copy Share Image
“What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Disclaimer: Consider all perceived errors and scrutinize all self-evident truths.” — Adam Scott Huerta Copy Share Image
“The spirit of our accurate and exact philosophy is outraged by conclusions that contradict each other so glaringly.” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Many governments employ torture but this was the first time that the element of Saturnalia and pornography in the process had been made so… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
It's [Los Angeles] mostly full of nonsense and delusion and egomania. They think they'll be young and beautiful forever, even though most of them… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
To be against rationalization is not the same as to be opposed to reasoning. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
[Religion] attacks us in our deepest integrity - the core of our self-respect. Religion says that we would not know right from wrong, we… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“In the very recent past, we have seen the Church of Rome befouled by its complicity with the unpardonable sin of child rape, or,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Suppose there were groups of secularists at hospitals who went round the terminally ill and urged them to adopt atheism: 'Don't be a mug… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
There are, after all, atheists who say they wish the fable were true but are unable to suspend the requisite disbelief, or who have… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“It isn’t so long since a test of Anglican orthodoxy was applied to anyone seeking to study or teach at Oxford and Cambridge universities.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Gullibility and credulity are considered undesireable qualities in every department of human life - except religion ... Why are we praised by godly men… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
It's much worse to see a woman drunk than a man: I don't know quite why this is true but it just is. Don't… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
That the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to suppose that Christianity offers… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“I felt like praying or something, when I was in bed, but I couldn't do it. I can't always pray when I feel like… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
Atheist’s denial of God’s existence needs just as much substantiation as does the theist’s claim; the atheist must give plausible reasons for rejecting God’s… — Paul Copan Copy Share Image
“I have found it an amusing strategy, when asked whether I am an atheist, to point out that the questioner is also an atheist… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Good churches are not built by bad men; at least, there must be probity and enthusiasm somewhere in the society. These minsters were neither… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
An ineffably holy God, who has the utmost abhorrence of sin, was never invented by any of Adam's descendents. — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
If all the Atheists & Agnostics left America, they'd lose 93% of The National Academy of Sciences & less than 1% of the prison population. — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
I am an atheist. I don't think there's anything divine. Beautiful, impressive, awe-inspiring - sure, but not divine. — Nomy Arpaly Copy Share Image
I am like all other atheists only in that I do not believe there are any gods. Beyond that, I may differ dramatically in… — Richard Carrier Copy Share Image