“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 …
Publications
Marie Curie
“Pierre belonged to no religion and I did not practice any.” …
Albert Camus
“[Camus’] anti-Christianity is one of the most absolute of modern times.” …
Andrew Dickson White
“I simply try to aid in letting the light of historical truth into that decaying mass of outworn thought which attaches the modern world to mediaeval conceptions of Christianity.” …
Culbert Olson
“The emancipation of the mind from religious superstition is as essential to the progress of civilization as is emancipation from physical slavery.” …
Greg Graffin
“If you can believe in God, then you can believe in anything. It’s a gang mentality.” …
Thandiwe Newton
“I grew up on the coast of England in the ’70s. My dad is white from Cornwall and mum is black from Zimbabwe. Even the idea of us as a …
Mike Nichols
ABIGAIL POGREBIN: Does Nichols connect in any spiritual way to being Jewish or is it heritage that moved him?NICHOLS: “Certainly heritage. Religion? I would have to say, no. In an …
Pat Tillman
“Hold your spiritual bromides. … Pat isn’t with God. He’s f-ing dead. He wasn’t religious. So thank you for your thoughts, but he’s f-ing dead.” …
