Atheism Quotes - Page 4

The lack of understanding of something is not evidence for God. It's evidence of a lack of understanding.

Science is different to all other systems of thought because you dont need faith in it, you can check that it works.

Humanity is in the highest degree irrational, so that there is no prospect of influencing it by reasonable arguments. Against prejudice one can do nothing.

I was convinced that our beliefs are based much more on custom and example than on any certain knowledge.

The influence of the leaders is due in very small measure to the arguments they employ, but in a large degree to their prestige. The best proof of this is that, should they by any circumstance lose their prestige, their influence disappears.

Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem

You can fool some of the people some of the time -- and that's enough to make a decent living.

The opposite of Christianity is not atheism, but idolatry.

Some atheists are quite explicit that their atheism comes first. One of the most famous is Richard Lewontin, a professor of genetics, who said it wasn't science that compelled him to accept a materialistic explanation of the universe. It was an a priori materialism.

Religion is based upon blind faith supported by no evidence. Science is based upon confidence that results from evidence - and that confidence can be modified and/or reversed by further observations and experimentation. Science approaches truth, closer and closer, by hard dedicated work. Religion already has it all decided, and it's in the book. It's dogma, unchangeable, and unaffected by reality and whatever facts we come upon in the real world.

It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.

There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.

The new atheism as an old atheism, except it's much more aggressive. The new atheism wants to destroy religion. That's a very different thing. The arguments are not new, it's the aggression that's new.

Religion is a collective insanity.

Communism begins where atheism begins.

No one ever dies an atheist.

Since it is obviously inconceivable that all religions can be right, the most reasonable conclusion is that they are all wrong.

Frankly, I adore your catchy slogan, "Adoption, not Abortion," although no one has been able to figure out, even with expert counseling, how to use adoption as a method of birth control, or at what time of the month it is most effective.

Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world.

It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and relations. If only Darwin could conscientiously have traced man back to the Elephant or the Lion or the Antelope, how much ridicule and prejudice would have been spared to the doctrine of Evolution.

If 'god' is a metaphysical term, then it cannot be even probable that a god exists. For to say that 'God exists' is to make a metaphysical utterance which cannot be either true or false. And by the same criterion, no sentence which purports to describe the nature of a transcendent god can possess any literal significance.

To sustain the belief that there is no God, atheism has to demonstrate infinite knowledge, which is tantamount to saying, “I have infinite knowledge that there is no being in existence with infinite knowledge

If we are honest - and scientists have to be - we must admit that religion is a jumble of false assertions, with no basis in reality.

Stripping away the irrational, the illogical, and the impossible, I am left with atheism. I can live with that.

Demagoguery enters at the moment when, for want of a common denominator, the principle of equality degenerates into the principle of identity.