Alchemy Quote by Steven Pinker

Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifiying to man, more repugnant…

— Thomas Paine

I never loved totalitarianism and all the ideas of making mankind happy always seemed crazy to me.

— Stanislaw Lem

“On the other side, Church spokesmen could scarcely become enthusiastic about Planck's deism, which omitted all reference to established religions and had no more…

— J.L. Heilbron

The movement toward choosing religion, rampant as it is, shouldn't be surprising. Ours is an era marked by the desire to define - or…

— Stephen J. Dubner

There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion.

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

Toleration made the world anti-Christian.

— John Cotton

“It is implied in the New Testament vision that Christianity is not a culture-creating thing but rather a culture-influencing one... there can never be…

— Leonard Verduin

Indeed, I suspect that the changes that have taken place during the last century in the average man's fundamental beliefs, in his philosophy, in…

— Robert Andrews Millikan

The task of organized religion is not to prove that God was in the 1st century, but that he is in the 20th.

— S H Miller

“We twentieth-century Christians have chosen the way of compromise. We withdraw our Christian consciousness from the fields of public, commercial, and social life. When…

— Harry Blamires

I decided that I did not want to follow any of these ideologies or trends, because these also exerted a kind of pressure, and…

— Gao Xingjian

The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive ... but in spite of their religion, not because of it. The Church has…

— Mark Twain