Quotes about atheism
atheism coffins
Science itself is steadily nailing the lid on atheism's coffin. Lee Strobel
atheism finance can-do
Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without. Joseph Wood Krutch
atheism facts can-do
Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot decide what it ought to do.
atheism heritage christianity
Intolerance has always been one of the cornerstones of Christianity - the glorious heritage of the Inquisition. Madalyn Murray O'Hair
atheism masterpiece extraordinary
The Universe is the most extraordinary masterpiece ever constructed by nobody. Gilbert K. Chesterton
atheism world doe
The World to Bacon does not only owe it's present knowledge, but its future too. John Dryden
atheism information wells
Well, when I get new information, I rethink my position. What, sir, do you do with new information? John Maynard Keynes
atheism credit reason
Faith is the assent to any proposition not made out by the deduction of reason but upon the credit of the proposer. John Locke
atheism belief absence
... the absence of theistic belief. Joseph McCabe
atheism taste language
Had the Bible been in clear straightforward language, had the ambiguities and contradictions been edited out, and had the language been constantly modernised to accord with contemporary taste it would almost certainly have been, or become, a work of lesser influence. John Kenneth Galbraith
atheism vengeance lord
How unfortunate for mankind that the Lord is reported by Holy Writ as having said 'Vengeance is mine!' Julian Huxley
atheism enlightenment agendas
Secular humanism proposes ... the complete implementation of the agenda of modernism ... what is necessary for it to occur is a ... New Enlightenment. Paul Kurtz
atheism needs foundation
Humanists hold that ethical values are relative to human experience and need not be derived from theological or metaphysical foundations.
atheism may path
It may seem bizarre, but in my opinion science offers a surer path to God than religion. Paul Davies
atheism literature reason
The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason. Mary Wollstonecraft
atheism division pope
The Pope? How many divisions has he got? Joseph Stalin
atheism agents venture
I'm not an historian but I'll venture an opinion: Modern cosmology really began with Darwin and Wallace. Unlike anyone before them, they provided explanations of our existence that completely rejected supernatural agents... Darwin and Wallace set a standard not only for the life sciences but for cosmology as well. Leonard Susskind
atheism vices opinion
It is not the opinions or the vices of private individuals that are harmful to the State, but rather the behavior of public figures. Marquis de Sade
atheism slave reason
Mine was a trained Presbyterian conscience and knew but the one duty - to hunt and harry its slave upon all pretexts and on all occasions, particularly when there was no sense nor reason in it. Mark Twain
atheism life-is given
And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all. Lucretius
atheism world
There is so much wrong with the world. (tanta stat praedita culpa)
atheism creation made
One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.
atheism pay debt
Death pays all debts. Michel de Montaigne
atheism boots matter
Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the boot-maker. Mikhail Bakunin
atheism absence reverse
You say, The sensed absence of God and the sensed presence amount to much the same thing, only in reverse. Margaret Atwood
atheism argument accepting
You explain right well, and you shew that you understand argument and are not a mere sophist since you accept that which cannot be denied. Giordano Bruno
atheism god horrors obvious
Atheism is really nothing but a sorry litany of non-sequiturs, e.g., if God existed, why do we have all the evil and horrors in the world? But this presupposes that God is all-good, an obvious non-sequitur. Vincent Bugliosi
atheism heart life man rather
Atheism is rather in the life than in the heart of man Francis Bacon
atheism moral opinions position rather richard rigid
Atheism is a moral position - a rather rigid one, if you've ever read the opinions of its highest-profile espousers, Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins. Lynn Coady
atheism argument
Follow the argument wherever it leads. Socrates
atheism praise lord
So, of course, Gish's presentation was well received, which it would have been the case had he only gotten up and said "praise the Lord" and sat back down. Michael Shermer
atheism classroom objects
I object to religion in science classrooms not because it's religion but because it's not science. Neil deGrasse Tyson
atheism firsts produce
Deism, historically, produces atheism. First you make God a landlord, then an absent landlord, then he becomes simply absent. N. T. Wright