Atheism Quote by Christopher Hitchens

Religion has run out of justifications. Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, it no longer offers an explanation of anything important. Where once…

— Christopher Hitchens

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

— PZ Myers

Religion has been compelled by science to give up one after another of its dogmas. . . .

— Herbert Spencer

It is no coincidence that so many religious beliefs date back to times when no science could possibly have accounted satisfactorily for many of…

— James D. Watson

Alternative explanations are always welcome in science, if they are better and explain more. Alternative explanations that explain nothing are not welcome... Note how…

— Victor J. Stenger

The common belief that... the actual relations between religion and science over the last few centuries have been marked by deep and enduring hostility...…

— Colin Archibald Russell

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

Relativity is a purely scientific matter and has nothing to do with religion.

— Albert Einstein

Science has taken away our religion.

— Bryan Appleyard

The Universe revealed by science is one of far more awesome grandeur than any religion has ever posited.

— Ann Druyan

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

It was tremendously exciting to discover that science was not destroying religion, as people popularly believe, but that it could cast light on theism…

— Susan Howatch