Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning..

Men create the gods after their own images..

An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death..

I think it's a bit excessive..

I have found Christian dogma unintelligible..

Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion..

What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree..

The chief reason people do not know God is not because He hides from them but because they hide from Him..

But after he was pleased to reveal himself to me I did presently, like Abraham, run to Hagar. And after that he did let me see the atheism of my own ….

No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true..

All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old poop I can remember back to when we had those ol….

This is one of the great social functions of science - to free people from superstition.

Atheism is the last word of theism.

The opposite of theism is not atheism, it’s idolatry.

But honest men do not pretend to know; they are candid and sincere; they love the truth; they admit their ignorance, and they say, We do not know..

Naturally, since [the Sumerians] didn't know what caused the flood anymore than we do, they blamed the gods. (That's the advantage of religion. You'r….

Morality is doing what is right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right..

Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade..

Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed..

The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion..

Please, with the God talk. Hate to break it to you, but there is no God..