Discovery Quote by James D. Watson

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

We have lived in a world where the discoveries of physics and genetics are far more awe-inspiring, as well as infinitely more liberating, than…

— Christopher Hitchens

Science may have come a long way, but as far as religion is concerned, we are first cousins to the !Kung tribesmen of the…

— Phil Donahue

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

“Religion arose as an effort to explicate the inexplicable, control the uncontrollable, make bearable the unbearable. Belief in a higher power became the most…

— Douglas Preston

The God idea is growing more impersonal and nebulous in proportion as the human mind is learning to understand natural phenomena and in the…

— Emma Goldman

When the masses become better informed about science, they will feel less need for help form supernatural Higher Powers. The need for religion will…

— Francesc Ferrer i Guardia

It is my contention that no other invention of man has brought greater chaos to humanity than the practice of religion.

— Paul Winchell

One must state it plainly. Religion comes from the period of human pre-history where nobody - not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that…

— Christopher Hitchens

Religion is like our appendix, a vestigial remnant from a primitive past. Perhaps in a few millennia the god of Abraham will invoke the…

— Jeff Schweitzer

It seldom seems to strike the ultra-Darwinists that theology might have its own richness and subtleties, and might strange thought actually tell us things…

— Simon Conway Morris

Today evolution of human intelligence has advanced us to the stage where most of us are too smart to invent new gods but are…

— Ruth Hurmence Green