“Before [his brother Ludwig’s book] “Force and Matter” what did the world at large know then of the first achievements of science? The vast majority were sunk in their blind faith …
Publications
Georges Bizet
“Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice.” …
Marcellin Berthelot
“In a letter addressed to the Rome Congress of Freethinkers in 1904 [Berthelot] scorns ‘the poison vapours of superstition’ and longs for a ‘reign of reason.’ ” …
Anne Tyler
“I remember when I was 7, making crucial decisions about the kind of person I was going to be. That’s also the age when I figured out that, oh, someday …
Lakshmi Sahgal
“I have always been an atheist. My parents were atheists. It doesn’t bother me if somebody is religious. My problem is when religion is used to institutionalize other things.” …
Eugenie Scott
“My personal view is I’m not religious. I don’t accept the Christian view of things.” …
Kevin Kline
“You see, I do exist.” …
Jon Huertas
“I treat people good for goodness’ sake, not because I’m going to be rewarded in an afterlife.” …
Johnny Carson
“[I]t appears that religion was a more casual affair in the Carson household than it was in the Welks’, and Johnny apparently never made church-going part of his adult lifestyle …
