Ernst Mayr Quotes About Atheism

Quotes about: Atheism

• I have the honesty to say I'm an Atheist. There is nothing that supports the idea of a personal God.

  Ernst Mayr

  Atheist, Honesty, Ideas

• On the other hand, famous evolutionists such as Dobzhansky were firm believers in a personal God. He would work as a scientist all week and then on Sunday get down on his knees and pray to God. Frankly I've never been able to understand it because you would need two totally different compartments in your brain, one that deals with religion and the other with everything else.

  Ernst Mayr

  Sunday, Hands, Two

• Evolution as such is no longer a theory for a modern author. It is as much a fact as that the earth revolves around the sun.

  Ernst Mayr

  Atheism, Society, Earth

  Ernst Mayr (2007). “What Makes Biology Unique?: Considerations on the Autonomy of a Scientific Discipline”, p.100, Cambridge University Press

• Evolution ... is opportunistic, hence unpredictable.

  Ernst Mayr

  Religion, Atheism, Evolution

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