Robert A. Heinlein  - Quotes

 If God existed (a question concerning which Jubal maintained a meticulous intellectual neutrality) and if He desired to be worshiped (a proposition which Jubal found inherently improbable but conceivably possible in the dim light of his own ignorance), then (stipulating affirmatively both the above) it nevertheless seemed wildly unlikely to Jubal to the point of reductio ad absurdum that a God potent to shape galaxies would be titillated and swayed by the whoop-te-do nonsense the Fosterites offered Him as  

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Mary Doria Russell  - Quotes

 I believe in God the way I believe in quarks. People whose business it is to know about quantum physics or religion tell me they have good reason to believe that quarks and God exist. And they tell me that if I wanted to devote my life to learning what they've learned, I'd find quarks and God just like they did. 

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Mark Twain  - Quotes

 [The Bible] has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies. 

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Bertrand Russell  - Quotes

 As a philosopher, if I were speaking to a purely philosophic audience I should say that I ought to describe myself as an Agnostic, because I do not think that there is a conclusive argument by which one can prove that there is not a God. On the other hand, if I am to convey the right impression to the ordinary man in the street I think that I ought to say that I am an Atheist, because, when I say that I cannot prove that there is not a God, I ought to add equally that I cannot prove that there are not the Homeric gods. 

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Richard Dawkins  - Quotes

 We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further. 

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Friedrich Nietzsche  - Quotes

 I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time. 

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Michael Palin  - Quotes

 As I work in the afternoon on committing to paper some of my morning's thoughts, I find myself just about to close on the knotty question of whether or not I believe in God. In fact I am about to type, 'I do not believe in God', when the sky goes black as ink, there is a thunderclap and a huge crash of thunder and a downpour of epic proportions. I never do complete the sentence. 

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Clarence Darrow  - Quotes

 I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of. 

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Clarence Darrow  - Quotes

 I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means. 

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