“I was raised a very fervent Catholic, but from the ages of 15 to 22, I fought intense doubts about religion, until I ultimately realized that I was an atheist.” …
Publications
Mark Twain (Quote)
“Now at least, in our immediate day, we hear a Pope saying slave trading is wrong, and see him sending an expedition to Africa to stop it. The texts remain; …
Robert Dale Owen
“For a century and a half, then, after Jesus’ death, we have no means whatever of substantiating even the existence of the Gospels, as now bound up in the New …
Carl Sagan
“If some good evidence for life after death were announced, I’d be eager to examine it; but it would have to be real scientific data, not mere anecdote. As with …
Ivan Turgenev
“Whatever a man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself to this: Great God, grant that twice two be not four.” …
Bonnie Raitt
CBS INTERVIEWER: “I get a sense that gratitude is very important to you.”RAITT: “That’s true. I don’t think anybody’s ever mentioned that before. But I think it’s probably the closest thing …
Ben Bova
“When I started understanding how science works, it occurred to me that there just is no evidence that there is a God.” …
Edmund Halley
“That he was an infidel in religious matters seems as generally allowed as it appears unaccountable.” …
Sasha Sagan
“My parents raised me to be skeptical but not cynical.” “My hope is to teach my daughter to face our reality as we understand it through science and find the …