“It is inconceivable that the whole universe was merely created for us who live in this third-rate planet of a third-rate sun.” …
Publications
Percy Bysshe Shelley
“If ignorance of nature gave birth to gods, knowledge of nature is made for their destruction.” …
Helen Thomas
“Atheists pay taxes, too.” …
John Landis
“I’m an atheist. I do not believe in the devil; in fact, I’m suspect of people who do.” …
Rupert Brooke
Fish say, they have their Stream and Pond; But is there anything Beyond? This life cannot be All, they swear, For how unpleasant, if it were! One may not doubt …
Michael Terence Wogan
“I’m afraid I don’t believe in God. My mother was devout and so is my wife. But I have the intellectual arrogance that makes it very hard to believe in …
John T. Scopes
“Of course, it was impossible to teach biology without teaching evolution. But to the fundamentalists, evolution symbolized all that was repugnant. It was a threat to religious belief, they thought. …
Lawrence Wright
“The very same qualities that make [religion] so powerful — because it can place a transformative lens over the ways we perceive reality and can make our lives more tolerable …
James Baldwin
“If the concept of God has any validity or use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is …
