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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.
Clarence Darrow1857–1938Scopes Trial, Dayton, Tennessee (13 July 1925)
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
- Anti-God
I feel most deeply that the whole subject is too profound for the human intellect. A dog might as well speculate on the mind of Newton. Let each man hope and believe what he can.
Charles Darwin1809–1882The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin (1887), volume II, chapter VII: “The ‘Origin of Species’”, pages 311-312; letter to Asa Gray (22 May 1860)
- Faith
It takes a while to realize that God can empty garbage.
Ram Dass1931–2019Be Here Now (1971)
Prayer is petition, intercession, adoration, and contemplation; great saints and mystics have agreed on this definition. To stop short at petition is to pray only in a crippled fashion.
Robertson Davies1913–1995A Voice from the Attic (1960)
- Prayer
Pantheism is sexed-up atheism. Deism is watered-down theism.
Richard Dawkinsborn 1941The God Delusion (2006) (p. 40)
- Atheism
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
Richard Dawkinsborn 1941The Root of All Evil? (2006)
- Atheism
Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.
Richard Dawkinsborn 1941The Blind Watchmaker (1986), Chapter 1 “Explaining the Very Improbable” (p. 6)
- Atheism
- Science
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)
- Anti-God
- Science
Go ahead and believe in God, if you like, but don’t imagine that you have been given any grounds for such a belief by science.
Daniel Dennett1942–2024New York Times, letter to the editor (26 August 2009)
- Science
God bless us every one!
Charles Dickens1812–1870A Christmas Carol (1843), Stave IIIIn context
- Christmas
They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.
Emily Dickinson1830–1886Letter to Mrs. J. G. Holland [L551] (Spring 1878)
One could perhaps describe the situation by saying that God is a mathematician of a very high order, and He used very advanced mathematics in constructing the universe.
Paul Dirac1902–1984The Evolution of the Physicist’s Picture of Nature (1963)
- Science
Take me to you, imprison me, for I
Except you enthral me, never shall be free,
Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
John Donne1572–1631Batter My Heart, Three-Personed God (1633), Holy Sonnets, No. 14, line 12In context
Batter my heart, three-person’d God; for you
As yet but knock; breathe, shine, and seek to mend
John Donne1572–1631Batter My Heart, Three-Personed God (1633)In context
- Prayer