Able Quote by Christopher Hitchens

Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important.

— Christopher Hitchens

Religion is still parasitic in the interstices of our knowledge which have not yet been filled. Like bed-bugs in the cracks of walls and…

— John B. S. Haldane

Science provides tangible evidence of its accuracy and importance. Religion makes excuses for its absence of the same.

— PZ Myers

We have seen that no religion stands on the basis of things known; none bounds its horizon within the field of human observation; and,…

— Anonymous

“If religion addresses a genuine sphere of understanding and human necessity, then it should be susceptible to progress; its doctrines should become more useful,…

— Sam Harris

There appears to be momentum towards more and more misunderstandings between religions, a degradation of relations.

— Aga Khan IV

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

— Bertrand Russell

One form of religion perpetually gives way to another; if religion did not change it would be dead. ... Each time the new ideas…

— Edith Hamilton

Perhaps, if science is clever enough to see, it will realize that religion may not be too far off with its concrete imagery; and…

— Robert Lanza

Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of…

— Muhammad Iqbal

Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely. Only with the discovery of the double helix and the ensuing genetic revolution have we…

— James D. Watson

How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe is much…

— Carl Sagan