Douglas Adams Quotes About Atheist

Quotes about: Atheist

• I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.

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  Inspirational, Life, Atheist

  Douglas Adams, Stephen Fry (2012). “The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time”, p.87, Pan Macmillan

• Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Religious

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.79, Pan Macmillan

• I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.

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  Atheist, Intelligent, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• Yes, I think I use the term radical rather loosely, just for emphasis. If you describe yourself as atheist some people will say, Don't you mean agnostic? I have to reply that I really do mean atheist, I really do not believe that there is a god; in fact, I am convinced that there is not a god (a subtle difference). I see not a shred of evidence to suggest that there is one...etc., etc. It's easier to say that I am a radical atheist, just to signal that I really mean it, have thought about it a great deal and that it's an opinion I hold seriously.

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  Being Yourself, Atheist, Believe

• The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.

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  Atheist, Faith Religion, Atheism

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.47, Pan Macmillan

• God is no longer an explanation of anything, but has instead become something that would itself need an insurmountable amount of explaining.

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  Atheist, Religion, Atheism

  Douglas Adams (2005). “The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time”, p.104, Del Rey

• "I refuse to prove that I exist" says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith, I am nothing."
  "Oh," says man, "but the Babel Fish is a dead give-away, isn't it? It proves You exist, and so therefore You don't. Q.E.D."
  "Oh, I hadn't thought of that," says God, who promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.

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  Atheist, Men, Giving

  "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". Book by Douglas Adams, Chapter 6, 1979.

• If I were not an atheist, I think I would have to be a Catholic because if it wasn't the forces of natural selection that designed fish, It must have been an Italian.

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  Atheist, Italian, Thinking

  Douglas Adams, Stephen Fry (2012). “The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time”, p.61, Pan Macmillan

• People will then often say, 'But surely it's better to remain an Agnostic just in case?' This, to me, suggests such a level of silliness and muddle that I usually edge out of the conversation rather than get sucked into it. (If it turns out that I've been wrong all along, and there is in fact a god, and if it further turned out that this kind of legalistic, cross-your-fingers-behind-your-back, Clintonian hair-splitting impressed him, then I think I would choose not to worship him anyway.)

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  Atheist, Thinking, Hair

  Douglas Adams (2005). “The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time”, p.103, Del Rey

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