Atheism Quotes - Page 68

Nothing could add to the horror of hell, except the presence of its creator, God.

The old lady who said there must be a devil, else how could they make pictures that looked exactly like him, reasoned like a trained theologian - like a doctor of divinity.

On Earth, Discord! A gloomy Heaven above, opening her jealous gates to the nineteen thousandth part of the tithe of mankind! And below, an inescapable & inexorable Hell, expanding its leviathan jaws for the vast residue of Mortals!

'Tis well averred, A scientific faith's absurd.

Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist.

As you know, a theory in physics is not useful unless it is able to predict underlined effects which we would otherwise expect.

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. I replied, "Because I am Feynman!" The young man went, "Ahhhhh!"

I became a little alarmed at the number of my readers who took the meme more positively as a theory of human culture in its own right - either to criticize it (unfairly, given my original modest intention) or to carry it far beyond the limits of what I then thought justified. This was why I may have seemed to backtrack.

I am at a loss to reconcile the expensive and glossy production values of this book with the breathtaking inanity of the content.

Bertrand Russell used a hypothetical teapot in orbit about Mars for the same didactic purpose. You have to be agnostic about the teapot, but that doesn't mean you treat the likelihood of its existence as being on all fours with its non-existence.

We should learn to understand natural selection, so that we can oppose any tendency to apply it to human politics.

'Take offense at the drop of a hat' is the unwritten eleventh commandment.

Atheism is not a religion. Abstinence is not a sex position.

Would the atheist continue such, let him beware how he admits Love into his breast: for God will surely come along with him.

Astronomy ... is of all others the science which seems to present to us the most striking instance of waste in nature.

Most atheists bristle at the thought that atheism has anything to do with faith, but not Penn Jillette.

The first and last lesson of religion is, "The things that are seen, are temporal; the things that are unseen, are eternal." It puts an affront upon nature.

That which shows God in me, fortifies me. That which shows God out of me, makes me a wart and a wen.

Other world? There is no other world; here or nowhere is the whole fact.

If we, each doing our own part, if we do good to others, if we meet there, doing good, and we go slowly, gently, little by little, we will make that culture of encounter: we need that so much. We must meet one another doing good.

Grant that we may be one flock and one shepherd.

The United States furnishes the first example in history of a government deliberately depriving itself of all legislative control of religion.

And I won't be laughing at the lies when I'm goneAnd I can't question how or when or why when I'm goneCan't live proud enough to die when I'm goneSo I guess I'll have to do it while I'm here.

I regret my disbelief in God.

Do you think in many ways, sir, you're the victim of circumstance now?