There Being No God Quotes - Page 3

• The characters and events depicted in the damn bible are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

  Penn Jillette

  Atheist, Character, Atheism

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• There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?

  Richard Dawkins

  Respect, Atheist, Learning

  Speech at the Edinburgh International Science Festival, April 15, 1992.

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• It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible.

  George William Foote

  Spiritual, Religious, Atheist

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• [Science] is corrosive of religious belief, and it's a good thing too.

  Steven Weinberg

  Religious, Atheist, Religion

  "The Atheism Tapes", 2004.

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• There are yet people who say there is no God. But what really makes me angry is that they quote me for the support of such views

  Albert Einstein

  Views, People, Support

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• Because there is a law such as gravity, the Universe can and will create itself from nothing.

  Stephen Hawking

  Law, Creation Of The Universe, Gravity

  "The Grand Design". Book by Stephen Hawking, www.npr.org. 2010.

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• I don't know about you, but I call impromptu vomiting harm.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Atheist, Sin City, Waking Life

  Karen Marie Moning (2006). “Darkfever: Fever Series”, p.82, Delacorte Press

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• As far as I can tell from studying the scriptures, all you do in heaven is pretty much just sit around all day and praise the Lord. I don't know about you, but I think that after the first, oh, I don't know, 50,000,000 years of that I'd start to get a little bored.

  Rick Reynolds

  Atheist, Thinking, Years

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• I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene….No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus.

  Albert Einstein

  Jesus, Feelings, Christ

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• I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, God, Religious

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.39, Princeton University Press

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• It is not as in the Bible, that God created man in his own image. But, on the contrary, man created God in his own image.

  Ludwig Feuerbach

  Religious, Atheist, Men

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• Today's religion will be the future's mythology. Both believed at one time by many; but proved wrong by the clever.

  Steve Crocker

  Religious, Atheist, Clever

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• They felt that science would be corrosive to religious belief and they were worried about it. Damn it, I think they were right. It is corrosive to religious belief and it's a good thing.

  Steven Weinberg

  Religious, Atheist, Thinking

  "Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief" (BBC Four), 2005.

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• To talk of immaterial existences is to talk of nothings. To say that the human soul, angels, god, are immaterial, is to say they are nothings, or that there is no god, no angels, no soul. I cannot reason otherwise: but I believe I am supported in my creed of materialism by Locke, Tracy, and Stewart. At what age of the Christian church this heresy of immaterialism, this masked atheism, crept in, I do not know. But heresy it certainly is.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Christian, Religious, Atheist

  Thomas Jefferson (1984). “Jefferson: Writings”, p.1932, Library of America

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• This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it.

  John Adams

  Religious, Atheist, If There Is A God

  John Adams, Abigail Adams, Thomas Jefferson (1988). “The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams”

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• If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.

  Edmond de Goncourt

  Atheist, If There Is A God, Religion

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• What's "God"? Well, you know, when you want something really bad and you close your eyes and you wish for it? God's the guy that ignores you.

  Steve Buscemi

  Religious, Atheist, Eye

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• Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.

  Heywood Broun

  Atheist, If There Is A God, Religion

  "Collected Edition of Heywood Broun". Book by Heywood Broun (p. 26), 1941.

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• I'm a polyatheist - there are many gods I don't believe in.

  Dan Fouts

  Religious, Atheist, Believe

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• If there were no God, there would be no atheists.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  God, Atheist, Christian Inspirational

  "Where All Roads Lead" by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1922.

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• Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

  Voltaire

  Christian, Atheist, Men

  Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.142, Penguin

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• Truth does not demand belief. Scientists do not join hands every Sunday, singing, 'Yes, gravity is real! I will have faith!'

  Dan Barker

  Real, Sunday, Hands

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• Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.

  Woody Allen

  Inspirational, Funny, God

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• Religions are like pills, which must be swallowed whole without chewing.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Atheist, Atheism, Pills

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• There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Hate, If There Is A God, Christian Inspirational

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