For most cosmologists, a supernatural God is an unnecessary hypothesis. For most Americans, He is an unassailable fact. The American belief machine a….

He's a smart man, so I am assuming he will do it..

For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization..

Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent..

Those who wish to base their morality literally on the Bible have either not read it or not understood it..

All good intellects have repeated, since Bacon's time, that there can be no real knowledge but which is based on observed facts..

Prayers and sacrifices are of no avail..

I believe that the more thoroughly science is studied, the further does it take us from anything comparable to atheism..

Thanks to the toleration preached by the encyclopedists of the eighteenth century, the sorcerer is exempt from torture..

I do not deny "God", because that word conveys to me no idea, and I cannot deny that which presents to me no distinct affirmation, and of which the w….

Ye have locked yerselves up in cages of fear and, behold, do ye now complain that ye lack FREEDOM!.

To reorganize society without God or King, by the systematic culture of Humanity..

Remember always that we are pattern-seeking primates who are especially adept at finding patterns with emotional meaning..

An Inuit hunter asked the local missionary priest: If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell? No, said the priest, not if you did not k….

Agitate! Agitate! Ought to be the motto of every reformer. Agitation is the opposite of stagnation - the one is life, the other death..

Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you..

Christianity ... that musty old theology, which already has its grave clothes on, and is about to be buried... A wall of Bible, brimstone, church and….

I am very hostile to religion because it is enormously dominant, especially in American life. And I don't buy the argument that, well, it's harmless….

A designer God cannot be used to explain organized complexity because any God capable of designing anything would have to be complex enough to demand….

They knew no better, but I do not propose to follow the example of a barbarian because he was honestly a barbarian..

Once we were driving in the midwest and we pulled into a McDonald's. Someone came up to me and asked me why I have Feynman diagrams all over my van. ….