“I’ve always thought that the idea of God is absolutely preposterous, but slightly more plausible than the alternative proposition that, given enough time, some green slime could write Shakespeare’s sonnets.” …
Day: July 3, 1980
Leoš Janáček
“Today they are lifting the bells into the tower. It would be nice if they weren’t calling people to bamboozling.” …
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Preach about the other man, Preacher! The man we all can see! The man of oaths, the man of strife, The man who drinks and beats his wife, Who helps …
Kerry King
“I don’t really have a life philosophy; my thing is just rebelling against pretty much organized religion. That is my main thing, because personally I think it’s a crutch for …
Rafael Nadal
“It’s hard to say, ‘I don’t believe in God.’ I would love to know if God exists. But it’s a very difficult thing for me to believe. … I say, …
James Hutton
“The past history of our globe must be explained by what can be seen to be happening now. No powers are to be employed that are not natural to the …
Edward Livingston Youmans
“He also expressed skepticism about miracles, as infractions of the order of nature requiring much more evidence to make them credible than has ever been produced.” …
Mary L. Trump
“It just seemed absurd that there could be any kind of higher power. None of it made sense to me any more. So, since the age of 16, I have …
Pete Seeger
“I leaf through [the bible] quite often — if only to shake my head in disgust. I quote Leviticus to people who think that every word in the Bible is …