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If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of his creation it would appear that God has a special fondness for stars and beetles.
J. B. S. Haldane1892–1964A possibly apocryphal reply to theologians who inquired if there was anything that could be concluded about the Creator from the study of creation; as described in “Homage to Santa Rosalia, or why are there so many kinds of animals” by G. Evelyn Hutc
- Science
Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
Dag Hammarskjöld1905–1961Vägmärken · Markings (1963), 1941–1942
- Prayer
Justice” was done, and the President of the Immortals, in Æschylean phrase, had ended his sport with Tess.
Thomas Hardy1840–1928Tess of the d’Urbervilles (1891), Phase the Seventh: Fulfilment, Chapter LIXIn context
- Justice
Theology is now little more than a branch of human ignorance. Indeed, it is ignorance with wings.
Sam Harrisborn 1967The End of Faith (2004)
- Anti-Religion
- Theology
Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make in the presence of unjustified religious beliefs.
Sam Harrisborn 1967Letter to a Christian Nation (2006), p. 51
- Anti-Religion
- Atheism
Perhaps this may sound weird, but God is really there next to you.
George Harrison1943–2001Introduction to Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead (1970) by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
All religions are branches of one big tree. It doesn’t matter what you call Him just as long as you call.
George Harrison1943–2001Introduction to Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead (1970) by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
- Religion
Not only does God play dice, but he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.
Stephen Hawking1942–2018During the same 1994 exchange with Penrose as the previous quote, transcribed in The Nature of Space and Time (1996) by Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose, p. 26 and also in “The Nature of Space and Time” (online text)
So Einstein was wrong when he said, “God does not play dice.” Consideration of black holes suggests, not only that God does play dice, but that he sometimes confuses us by throwing them where they can’t be seen.
Stephen Hawking1942–2018During the same 1994 exchange with Penrose as the previous quote, transcribed in The Nature of Space and Time (1996) by Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose, p. 26 and also in “The Nature of Space and Time” (online text)
- Science
Philosophy will not be able to effect an immediate transformation of the present condition of the world. This is not only true of philosophy, but of all merely human thought and endeavor. Only a god can save us.
Martin Heidegger1889–1976Only a God Can Save Us (1966; 1976)
- Philosophy
The most ridiculous concept ever perpetrated by Homo Sapiens is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of the Universes, wants the sacharrine adoration of his creations, that he can be persuaded by their prayers, and becomes petulant if he does not recieve this flattery. Yet this ridiculous notion, without one real shred of evidence to bolster it, has gone on to found one of the oldest, largest and least productive industries in history.
Robert A. Heinlein1907–1988
- Anti-Religion
- Prayer
All thinking men are atheists.
Ernest Hemingway1899–1961A Farewell to Arms (1929), Ch. 2In context
- Atheism
Please God, make him think I am still pretty.
O. Henry1862–1910The Gift of the Magi (1905)In context
- Beauty
- Prayer
It is when people forget God that tyrants forge their chains.
Patrick Henry1736–1799
Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
Augustine of Hippo354–430
- Prayer