God was invented to explain mystery. God is always invented to explain those things that you do not understand..

God [is] the author of the universe, and the free establisher of the laws of motion..

I don't want them (religious followers) trying to inflict their belief on me..

A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line..

I do not believe there is such a thing as a God..

Only he is a truly ethical, a truly human being, who has the courage to see through his own religious feelings and needs..

One thing about religious truths is that we have to take them on faith, and faith needs reassurance. What’s more reassuring than noticing that some o….

In short, evolution is as close to being a scientific fact as is possible for any theory, given that science is open - ended and no one can predict w….

While science continually uncovers new mysteries, it has removed much of what was once regarded as deeply mysterious. Although we certainly do not kn….

Fools, your reward is neither here nor there..

When people start using science to argue for their specific beliefs and delusions, to try to claim that they're supported by science, then scientists….

I'm not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions of the same untruth, but I hold that the i….

For telling a good and incisive religious joke, you should be praised. For telling a bad one, you should be ridiculed and reviled. The idea that you ….

The right to religious freedom has its foundation, not in the church or society or the state, but in the very dignity of the human person..

The only way to be true to our American tradition is to maintain absolute governmental neutrality regarding religious beliefs and practices.

I am without religious feeling..

Heresy makes for progress..

Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the nonexistence of ….

A comely female inhabiting the Mohammedan Paradise to make things cheery for the good Mussulman, whose belief in her existence marks a noble disconte….

In the absence of evidence, the scientist says, 'I don't know,' but the religionist says, 'I believe.'.

A scenario is suggested by which the universe and its laws could have arisen naturally from nothing. Current cosmology suggests that no laws of physi….