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Everything serious that he says is a joke and everything humorous that he says is dead serious.
I've always been suspicious of TV, I've always found music and video to be an unhappy marriage.
I don't believe in God. I believe in man -- in his strength, his possibilities, and his reason.
A true friend is a gift from God. Since God doesn't exist, guess what? Neither do true friends.
Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
How is it that the Church produced no geometer in her autocratic reign of twelve hundred years?
There will be certain things in a man that have to be won, not forced; inspired, not compelled.
It is conceivable that religion may be morally useful without being intellectually sustainable.
Science is advanced by proposing and testing hypothesis, not by declaring questions unsolvable.
When men live as if there were no God, it becomes expedient for them that there should be none.
Nothing is so much to be feared as fear. Atheism may comparatively be popular with God himself.
If I understand Dirac correctly, his meaning is this: there is no God, and Dirac is his Prophet.
Atheist, without God, I look to humankind for sympathy, for love, for hope, for effort, for aid.
When discord dreadful bursts the brazen bars, And shatters iron locks to thunder forth her wars.
Science can have no quarrel with a religion which postulates a God to whom men are His children.
Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
The churches have no confidence in each other. Why? Because they are acquainted with each other.
I never outgrew my conversion to atheism at 13, but at various times was a serious cultural Jew.
I don't think that the laws can be considered to be like God because they have been figured out.
There are a lot of legislators who are afraid that kids will learn science and lose their faith.
Prayer cannot be a request made to a theistic deity to act in human history in a particular way.
The idea of God, infinity, or spirit stands for the possible attempt at an impossible conception.
I am surrounded here by parsons and methodists, but as you will see, not infested with the mania.
Thomson's views on the recent age of the world have been for some time one of my sorest troubles.
The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.
That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.
I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
As long as every question is answered by the word "God," scientific inquiry is simply impossible.
Atheism deprives superstition of its stand ground, and compels Theism to reason for its existence
There are many who stay away from church these days because you hardly ever mention God any more.
I pray you, magnificent Sir, do not trouble yourself to return to us, but await our coming to you.
If God allows proof that he exists he robs people of faith and without faith what is God? Nothing.
Ye have locked yerselves up in cages of fear and, behold, do ye now complain that ye lack FREEDOM!
Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts
Personal religious convictions have no place in political campaigns or in dictating public policy.
She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts.
I object to religion in science classrooms not because it's religion but because it's not science.
When one reads Bibles, one is less surprised at what the Deity knows than at what He doesn't know.
The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.
Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.
Men have left GOD not for other gods, they say, but for no God; and this has never happened before.
No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve.
You keep accusing me of blasphemy all of the time, but I cannot be convicted of a victimless crime.
At Oxford University, the certainties of my atheist faith (and atheism is a faith) began to crumble
Praying is begging for an unseen deity to alter the laws of nature for someone admittedly unworthy.
Those who have more power are liable to sin more; no theorem in geometry is more certain than this.
If we would destroy the Christian religion, we must first of all destroy man's belief in the Bible.
And fragile is thy tenure of this world Still haunted by the monstrous ghost of God. ("To Science")
Atheism has been on the rise for years now, and the Bible of the atheists is The Origin of Species.
[Evolution is] one of the best documented, most compelling and exciting concepts in all of science.