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That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.


Christopher Hitchens


#reason #science #skeptic #science

All the tales of miracles, with which the Old and New Testament are filled, are fit only for impostors to preach and fools to believe.


Thomas Paine


#religion #science #skepticism #the-bible #age

Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself - that is my doctrine.


Thomas Paine


#freedom #liberty #religion #separation-of-church-and-state #skepticism

The strongest continuous thread in America's political tradition is skepticism about government.


George Will


#america #continuous #government #political #skepticism

It's natural to think that living things must be the handiwork of a designer. But it was also natural to think that the sun went around the earth. Overcoming naive impressions to figure out how things really work is one of humanity's highest callings. (Can You Believe in God and Evolution? Time Magazine, August 7, 2005)


Steven Pinker


#science #skepticism #design

I'm convinced that most men don't know what they believe, rather, they only know what they wish to believe. How many people blame God for man's atrocities, but wouldn't dream of imprisoning a mother for her son's crime?


Criss Jami


#apologetics #atrocities #belief #bias #biases

Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.


Jules Verne


#science #skepticism #imagination

An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God. I know of no such compelling evidence. Because God can be relegated to remote times and places and to ultimate causes, we would have to know a great deal more about the universe than we do now to be sure that no such God exists. To be certain of the existence of God and to be certain of the nonexistence of God seem to me to be the confident extremes in a subject so riddled with doubt and uncertainty as to inspire very little confidence indeed.


Carl Sagan


#antitheism #atheism #new-atheism #skepticism #inspirational

Be aware of this truth that the people on this earth could be joyous, if only they would live rationally and if they would contribute mutually to each others' welfare. This world is not a vale of sorrows if you will recognize discriminatingly what is truly excellent in it; and if you will avail yourself of it for mutual happiness and well-being. Therefore, let us explain as often as possible, and particularly at the departure of life, that we base our faith on firm foundations, on Truth for putting into action our ideas which do not depend on fables and ideas which Science has long ago proven to be false.


Kurt Vonnegut


#clemens-vonnegut #freethinker #funeral #science #skeptic

Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them; and no man ever had a distinct idea of the trinity. It is the mere Abracadabra of the mountebanks calling themselves the priests of Jesus.


Thomas Jefferson


#knowledge #reason #ridicule #skepticism #jesus