Abandonment Quote by Julian Huxley

Today the god hypothesis has ceased to be scientifically tenable, has lost its explanatory value and is becoming an intellectual and moral burden to…

— Julian Huxley

“[Religious belief is] outmoded and ridiculous. [Belief in gods was a] worn out but once useful crutch in mankind's journey towards truth. We consider…

— P.W. Atkins

“Atheism has become not so much a matter of abandoning religion as the vigorous imposition of an entirely new religion. ”

— Bō Jinn

This, it may be said, is no more than a hypothesis... only of that force of precedent which in all times has been so…

— William Robertson Smith

Today the god hypothesis has ceased to be scientifically tenable ... and its abandonment often brings a deep sense of relief.

— Julian Huxley

One reason why I recommend the abandonment of religious beliefs is because I think those beliefs are wrong. There is no evidence that our…

— Simon LeVay

“Obsoletes and absolutes are the stock in trade of religions that place their faith in an 'unchanging' god while faced with the reality of…

— Stifyn Emrys

Religion, after all, is nothing but an hypothesis framed to account for what is evidentially unaccounted for.

— H. L. Mencken

[Religion is a way of reconstructing] what has come to feel like a crumbling moral framework in the life of our nation.

— Joe Lieberman

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 occurs to me that my thinking has been faulty: we do not feel God's absence. We feel the absence of all that is…

— K.J. Bishop

“Some scholars in recent years have expressed a certain wonderment that "religion is back"; the wonder is rather that it was thought ever to…

— Brad S. Gregory