Science & Religion Quotes
“One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion.” ―Arthur C. Clarke
“Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?” ―Carl Sagan
“If there is a God, he will have to beg for my forgiveness.” ―phrase carved on the walls of a Mauthausen concentration camp cell during WWII
“People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.” ―Dave Barry
“Back when the Bible was written, then edited, then rewritten, then rewritten, then re-edited, then translated from dead languages, then re-translated, then edited, then rewritten, then given to kings for them to take their favorite parts, then rewritten, then re-rewritten, then translated again, then given to the pope for him to approve, then rewritten, then edited again, the re-re-re-re-rewritten again...all based on stories that were told orally 30 to 90 years AFTER they happened.. to people who didn't know how to write... so...” ―David Cross
“As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion, — as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen (Muslims), — and as the said States never entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mahometan (Mohammedan) nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.” ―President John Adams submitted and signed the Treaty of Tripoli, 1797
“I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.” ―Frank Lloyd Wright
“The best cure for Christianity is reading the bible.” ―Mark Twain
“Religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool.” ―Mark Twain
“It (the Bible) is full of interest. It has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables; and some blood-drenched history; and some good morals; and a wealth of obscenity; and upwards of a thousand lies.” ―Mark Twain
“It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.” ―Mark Twain
“Faith is believing something you know ain't true.” ―Mark Twain
“The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.” ―Neil deGrasse Tyson
“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.” ―Philip K. Dick, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon
“How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the true one.” —Richard Dawkins
“We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.” —Richard Dawkins
“It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with the experiment, it's wrong. In that simple statement is the key to science.” ―Richard P. Feynman
“The best thing about believing in an afterlife is that you will never find out you were wrong.” ―Ricky Gervais
“What can be more arrogant than believing that the same god who didn't stop the Holocaust will help you pass your driving test?”
“The most ridiculous concept ever perpetrated by Homo Sapiens is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of his creations, that he can be persuaded by their prayers, and becomes petulant if he does not receive 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. Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.” ―Robert Heinlein
“Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false. and by the rulers as useful.” ―Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger
“I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.” ―Stephen Hawking
“The only difference between a cult and a religion are the number of followers.”
“The second you’re born, you’re given a name, a religion, a nationality and a race. You spend the rest of your life defending a fictional identity.” ―Brandon Garic Notch
“There are approximately 4,200 religions in the world today. Some say that 4,199 are false. Some say that 4,200 are false.”
“Atheism is a conclusion, not a belief.”
“Science is a method, not a faith.”
“Skepticism is critical thinking, not a blasphemy.”
“Religions are just large, popular cults. While cults are small, unpopular religions.”
“Atheists do not say there is no god, with any more certainty then we say there are no unicorns, tooth fairies, or pink elephants. What we will assert is that there is no reason to believe any of these things actually exist. We will not accept that something exists - including your god - until there is measurable, empirical evidence, that supports its existence.”
“Strictly speaking, we cannot be certain about anything. but we can be as certain that the christian god does not exist as christians are that thor or zeus do not exist. give us reliable evidence and we will change our minds.”
“If the love of money is the root of all evil, why do they love it so much at church?”
“Religious people should be treated the same as flat-earthers.”
“Atheism is a religion in the same way the OFF is a TV channel.”
“One of the epiphanies religious should have is the fact that Atheists don't pray and their lives work out the same as anyone else's.”
“When you are a kid you're told if you behave and act nice Santa will give you toys for Christmas. But if you're bad you get coal. Religion is the same thing but for adults but the stakes are raised. Do God's work and allow yourself to be controlled by faith and you'll be rewarded with pure Bliss in heaven for eternity. But if you sin too much it's eternity of agony in hell.”
“If you took every holy book, every holy book there's ever been, every religious book, every bit of spirituality, and hid them or destroyed them... then you took every science book and destroyed that, in a thousand years' time, those science books would be back exactly the same, because the tests would always turn out the same. Those religious books would either never exist or they'd be totally different, because there's no test.” ―Ricky Gervais
“When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion.” ―Robert M. Pirsig, author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.” - Mark Twain
That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence. ~ Christopher Hitchens
If you need the threat of eternal suffering to be a good person, maybe you're not a good person.
Helping people is a good thing to do. Being forced to help people is wrong.
See the difference?