Astronomy Quote by Mark Twain

“If I were to construct a God I would furnish Him with some way and qualities and characteristics which the Present lacks.”

— Mark Twain

Away from God and gods did this will lure me: what would there be to create if gods existed?

— Friedrich Nietzsche

To be a god can ultimately become boring and degrading. There'd be reason enough for the invention of free will! A god might wish…

— Frank Herbert

If there were no God, he would have to be invented.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him.

— Voltaire

A god who is both self-sufficient and content to remain so could not interest us enough to raise the question of his existence.

— W. H. Auden

A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

If God did not exist, he would have to be invented.

— Anonymous

If there were no God ...........

— Vikrant Parsai

I prefer a God who once and for all impressed his will upon creation, to one who continually busied about modifying what he had…

— William Temple

If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him.

— Voltaire

If you build a snazzy alife sim ... you'd be a kind of bridging `first cause', and might even have the power to intervene…

— Damien Broderick