Quotes

Quotes from nobeliefs.com


No amount of belief makes something a fact.

--James Randi


The day that you stop looking -- because you're content God did it -- I don't need you in the lab. You're useless on the frontier of understanding the nature of the world.

--Neil Degrasse Tyson


We have a choice. We have two options as human beings. We have a choice between conversation and war. That's it. Conversation and violence. And faith is a conversation stopper.

--Sam Harris


The gods that we've made are exactly the gods you'd except to be made by a species that's about a half chromosome away from being a chimpanzee.

--Christopher Hitchens (Hitchens debates Barry Brummett)


If you talk to God, you are praying. If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.

--Thomas Szasz (professor of psychiatry)


Atheism is the arrogant belief that the entire universe was not created for our benefit.

--Michael Nugent (responding to the question of why atheists are so arrogant.)



The difference between faith and insanity is that faith is the ability to hold firmly to a conclusion that is incompatible with the evidence, whereas insanity is the ability to hold firmly to a conclusion that is incompatible with the evidence.

--William Harwood: Dictionary of Contemporary Mythology, London, 1st Books, 2002


People are entirely too disbelieving of coincidence. They re far too ready to dismiss it and to build arcane structures of extremely rickety substance in order to avoid it. I, on the other hand, see coincidence everywhere as an inevitable consequence of the laws of probability, according to which having no unusual coincidence is far more unusual than any coincidence could possibly be.

--Isaac Asimov


If all atheists left the USA, it would lose 93% of the National Academy of Sciences but less than 1% of the prison population.

--via TweetDeck


God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that's getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time goes on.

--Neil DeGrasse Tyson


For God’s sake, even the scientists are trying to find ways and means to improve the human conditions on this earth. Such as curing diseases, even conquering death. Now we are told that scientists are playing God. Well, if God would only stop wasting his powers fooling around and begin to play the role of God himself, we would have no need of scientists trying hard to make this world a better place than what the religious morons have made of it during these past centuries!

--Poch Suzara


Forget Jesus, the stars died so that you could be here today.

--Lawrence Krauss (A Universe From Nothing)


Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine.

--Arthur Schopenhauer


As I once put it to theologians at a meeting at the Vatican: theologians have to listen to scientists, because if they want to try to create a consistent theology (and while I have opinions about whether this is possible, but my opinions about this are neither particularly important nor informed) they at least need to know how the world works. But scientists don't have to listen to theologians, because it has no effect whatsoever on the scientific process.

--Lawrence Krauss (Does the empirical nature of science contradict the revelatory nature of faith?)


An idea does not gain truth as it gains followers.

--Amanda Bloom


A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

--Saul Bellow


If this is your God, he’s not very impressive. He has so many psychological problems; he’s so insecure. He demands worship every seven days. He goes out and creates faulty humans and then blames them for his own mistakes. He’s a pretty poor excuse for a Supreme Being.

--Gene Roddenberry