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The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.
Mikhail Bakunin1814–1876Man, Society, and Freedom (1871)
- Anti-Religion
Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.
CCChapman Cohen1868–1954Pamphlet The Devil, quoted in Gordon Stein An Anthology of Atheism and Rationalism (Prometheus Books, 1980), p. 258.
I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.
Clarence Darrow1857–1938Speech in Toronto (1930); as quoted in “Breaking the Last Taboo” (1996) by James A. Haught
We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universe[s], to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.
Charles Darwin1809–1882“Notebook N” (1838) page 36
To explain the origin of the DNA/protein machine by invoking a supernatural Designer is to explain precisely nothing, for it leaves unexplained the origin of the Designer.
Richard Dawkinsborn 1941The Blind Watchmaker (1986), Chapter 6 “Origins and Miracles” (p. 141)
- Science
It’s not God that I don’t accept, Alyosha, only I most respectfully return Him the ticket.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881The Brothers Karamazov (1880), Book V: Pro and Contra, Chapter IVIn context
- God
God was always invented to explain mystery. God is always invented to explain those things that you do not understand.
Richard Feynman1918–1988interview published in Superstrings: A Theory of Everything? (1988) edited by Paul C. W. Davies and Julian R. Brown, p. 208-209 ISBN 0521354625
Now, if the ignorance of nature gave birth to Gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them.
Baron d'Holbach1723–1789Le Système de la nature (The System of Nature, 1770)
- Knowledge
The more man puts into God, the less he retains in himself. The worker puts his life into the object; but now his life no longer belongs to him, but to the object.
Karl Marx1818–1883
- Work
The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike.
DMDelos McKown
I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900
Is man one of God’s blunders? Or is God one of man’s blunders?
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900In: The Very Best of Friedrich Nietzsche: Quotes from a Great Thinker, David Graham, 22 September 2014, p.4
God is dead.
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883), The Gay Science (1882), Sec. 108In context
We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.
Gene Roddenberry1921–1991
If I were granted omnipotence, and millions of years to experiment in, I should not think Man much to boast of as the final result of all my efforts.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970Religion and Science (1935)
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