Accounts Quote by H. L. Mencken

Science deals in evidence and uncertainty. Religion deals in certainty without evidence.

— David Milne

The religious hypothesis, therefore, must be considered only as a particular method of accounting for the visible phenomena of the universe: but no just…

— David Hume

Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.

— Frances Wright

Religion is a conceited effort to deny the most obvious realities.

— H. L. Mencken

A religion, that is, a true religion, must consist of ideas and facts both; not of ideas alone without facts, for then it would…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Religion is a belief in supernatural entities or forces that have an effect on the natural world - A belief in forces that are…

— Greta Christina

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

— PZ Myers

Religious belief, like history itself, is a story that is always unfolding, always subject to inquiry and ripe for questioning. For without doubt there…

— Jon Meacham

Religion is behavior and not mere belief.

— Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

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

The faith of religion is belief on insufficient evidence.

— Sam Harris

Religion is the recognition that all things are manifestations of a Power which transcends our knowledge.

— Herbert Spencer