There Being No God Quotes - Page 3

• Religion is like a virus that affects the behaviour of its host in such a way as to propagate itself further.

  Jack Pritchard

  Religious, Atheist, Atheism

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• 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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• 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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• [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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Atheist, Live Life, Men

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• I refuse to believe in a god who is the primary cause of conflict in the world, preaches racism, sexism, homophobia, and ignorance, and then sends me to hell if I'm 'bad'.

  Mark Fuhrman

  Religious, Atheist, Believe

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• The word 'God' is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, and religious scripture a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation, no matter how subtle, can (for me) change this.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Religious

  "Childish superstition: Einstein's letter makes view of religion relatively clear" by James Randerson, www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2008.

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• Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.

  Eric Hoffer

  Inspirational, Faith, Atheist

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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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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