Atheism Quote by Steven Weinberg Download Open image “On balance the moral influence of religion has been awful.” — Steven Weinberg ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Atheism Awful Balance Balance Moral Character Has beens Influence Influence Religion Moral Moral Influence Religion Religion Awful
We are well aware that religion is not as bad an influence as it was a short time ago, as history is counted. But… — E. Haldeman-Julius Copy Share Image
Religion is the worst thing that ever happened to mankind - the ironic part is that it's presented as a good thing, and its… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The very idea that we get a moral compass from religion is horrible. Not only should we not get our moral compass from religion,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Fanatical religion driven to a certain point is almost as bad as none at all, but not quite. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Huge imbalance in power has resulted in the alienation, rage, fury, and awful amoral terrorism that has erupted and is erupting at the present… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Religion is ... the most pernicious single influence in human society, without one redeeming feature. — Theodore Schroeder Copy Share Image
Religion attacks us in our deepest integrity by saying we wouldn't be able to make a moral decision without it. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The apparent strengths of the forces in any field theory depend on two kinds of numerical parameter: the masses (if any) of the particles… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
“Many people do simply awful things out of sincere religious belief, not using religion as a cover the way that Saddam Hussein may have… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
This is often the way it is in physics - our mistake is not that we take our theories too seriously, but that we… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
I would say it's a lot easier to develop a decoy system than to develop the intercontinental ballistic missile itself. I would think that… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
Rational argument can be defeated by refusing to argue rationally. — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
The universe is an enormous direct product of representations of symmetry groups. — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
Its a consequence of the experience of science. As you learn more and more about the universe, you find you can understand more and… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
Our job in physics is to see things simply, to understand a great many complicated phenomena in a unified way, in terms of a… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
“Plato and the neo-Platonists taught that the beauty we see in nature is a reflection of the beauty of the ultimate, the nous. For… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy. — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
If (the antiproton) had not been discovered, the foundations of physics really would have crumbled. — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
“What I have a problem with is not so much religion or god, but faith. When you say you believe something in your heart… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism. — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Let me tell you that atheism has never painted a masterpiece. Atheism has never dispelled fear. Atheism has never healed a disease; faith in… — John Hagee Copy Share Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which penetrate into… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty - it… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
You cannot ... transmute some incoherent mixture of words into sense merely by introducing the three-letter word "God" to be its grammatical subject. — Antony Flew Copy Share Image
Many humanists have argued that happiness involves a combination of hedonism and creative moral development; that an exuberant life fuses excellence and enjoyment, meaning… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
If, with all the time at my disposal, with all the wealth of the resources of this vast universe, to do with as I… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
