Accounts Quote by H. L. Mencken

Every phenomenon, however trifling it be, has a cause, and a mind infinitely powerful, and infinitely well-informed concerning the laws of nature could have…

— Henri Poincare

“Some form of natural teleology, a type of explanation whose intelligibility I briefly defended in the last chapter, would be an alternative to a…

— Thomas Nagel

“Everything in the universe conforms to certain simple scientific rules that have been repeated over billions of years. While this can be awe-inspiring, it…

— Atheist Republic

We have seen that living things are too improbable and too beautifully 'designed' to have come into existence by chance.

— Richard Dawkins

Nothing can create something all the time due to the laws of quantum mechanics, and it's - it's fascinatingly interesting.

— Lawrence M. Krauss

...It is impossible, I say, for the human mind not to believe that there is in all this design, cause, and effect up to…

— Thomas Jefferson

There is the theory that all the living forms in the world have arisen from a single source which itself came from an inorganic…

— Gerald A. Kerkut

We should always keep an open mind about any new phenomenon in nature. To merely say that's impossible, therefore it doesn't exist, is to…

— Gordon Stein

Is it really credible that random processes could have constructed a reality...which excels in every sense anything produced by the intelligence of man?

— Michael Denton

The idea of spontaneous generation of life in its present form is therefore highly improbable even to the scale of the billions of years…

— Ilya Prigogine

Life is either a reproducible, almost commonplace manifestation of matter, given certain conditions, or a miracle. Too many steps are involved to allow for…

— Christian de Duve

There is no natural phenomenon that is comparable with the sudden and apparently accidentally timed development of science, except perhaps the condensation of a…

— Eugene Wigner