Atheism Quotes - Page 20

• Forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Atheist, Jesus, Stars

  YouTube Channel "Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason & Science"/"'A Universe From Nothing' by Lawrence Krauss, AAI 2009", www.youtube.com. October 21, 2009.

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• The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Men, Umpires, Worry

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• We are bits of stellar matter that got cold by accident, bits of a star gone wrong.

  Arthur Eddington

  Stars, Gone, Matter

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• Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.

  Bertrand Russell

  Thinking, Religion, Trying

  Bertrand Russell (2014). “The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell”, p.553, Routledge

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• We are here because one odd group of fishes had a peculiar fin anatomy that could transform into legs for terrestrial creatures; because the earth never froze entirely during an ice age; because a small and tenuous species, arising in Africa a quarter of a million years ago, has managed, so far, to survive by hook and by crook. We may yearn for a ‘higher answer’– but none exists

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Atheist, Years, Ice

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• The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Memories, Ideas, Eternity

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• ... happily the Government of the United States... gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance.

  George Washington

  Atheist, Government, Giving

  Letter to Hebrew congregation of Newport, R.I., 17 Aug. 1790

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• The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Mean, Thinking, Religion

  Miguel de Unamuno (1925). “Essays and Soliloquies”

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• For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stonewritten. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

  Charles Bukowski

  Atheist, Educational, War

  "The Meaning of Life: The Big Picture". Life Magazine, December 1988.

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• Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Atheist, Religion, Agnostic

  Attributed to Benjamin Disraeli in John Gordon Stewart Drysdale and John James Drysdale "The Protoplasmic Theory of Life" (p. 279), 1874.

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• I think evolution should be taught as an accepted principle. I say that also as the daughter of a school teacher, a science teacher, who has instilled in me a respect for science. I think it should be taught in our schools. I won't ever deny that I see the hand of God in this beautiful creation that is earth. But - that is not a part of state policy or a local curriculum in a school district. Science should be taught in science class.

  Sarah Palin

  Beautiful, Daughter, Teacher

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• Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Morning, Atheist

  Bill Gates, Janet Lowe (1998). “Bill Gates Speaks: Insight from the World's Greatest Entrepreneur”, p.220, John Wiley & Sons

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• When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself.

  Peter O'Toole

  Religious, Atheist, Talking

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• It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

  Mark Twain

  Death, Religious, Atheist

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.31, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.

  Charles Darwin

  God, Garden, Thinking

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• It is my view that the simplest explanation is there is no God. No one created the universe and no one directs our fate. This leads me to a profound realization. There is probably no heaven, and no afterlife either. We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe, and for that, I am extremely grateful.

  Stephen Hawking

  Motivational, Atheist, Believe

  YouTube Chanel "stepore"/ "Stephen Hawking There is no God. There is no Fate.", www.youtube.com. August 15, 2011.

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• The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

  Karl Marx

  Atheist, Philosophical, People

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• I admit that reason is a small and feeble flame, a flickering torch by stumblers carried in the star-less night, - blown and flared by passion's storm, - and yet, it is the only light. Extinguish that, and nought remains.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Stars, Passion, Night

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1721, Library of Alexandria

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• Be sure to lie to your kids about the benevolent, all-seeing Santa Claus. It will prepare them for an adulthood of believing in God.

  Scott Dikkers

  Atheist, Lying, Believe

  Scott Dikkers (2009). “You Are Worthless: Depressing Nuggets of Wisdom Sure to Ruin Your Day”, p.170, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.

  Richard Dawkins

  God, Religious, Atheist

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.51, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

  Voltaire

  God, Atheist, Religion

  Epitres no. 96, "A l'Auteur du Livre des Trois Imposteurs" (1770) See Ovid 2

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• My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?

  C. S. Lewis

  God, Christian, Atheist

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish Him.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Atheist, Nihilism, Would Be

  Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin (2009). “God and the State”, p.28, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.

  Clarence Darrow

  Mother, Atheist, Believe

  Speech, Toronto, Canada, 1930

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• Atheists express their rage against God although in their view He does not exist.

  C. S. Lewis

  Atheist, Views, Christian Inspirational

  "The Problem of Pain". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1940.

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