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Design must be proved before a designer can be inferred.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief
Gerry Spence
Anyone who seeks for the true causes of miracles, and strives to understand natural phenomena as an intelligent being, and not to gaze at them like a fool, is set down and denounced as an impious heretic by those, whom the masses adore as the interpreters of nature and the gods. Such persons know that, with the removal of ignorance, the wonder which forms their only available means for proving and preserving their authority would vanish also.
Benedict da Spinoza
The prayers of the millions. How they must fight and destroy each other on the way to the throne of God.
John Steinbeck
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Jonathon Swift
It is better to ask some of the questions than to know all the answers.
James Thurber
You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
James Thurber
I have always observed that when people are interrupted in the performance of some egregious stupidity their feelings are hurt.
Anthony Trollope
Whatever a man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself to this: Great God, grant that twice two be not four.
Ivan Turgenev
It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand
Mark Twain
True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant.
Miguel de Unamuno
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it
Evelyn Beatrice Hall, writing in a biography of Voltaire
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities
Voltaire
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd
Voltaire
Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too
Voltaire
The Bible. That is what fools have written, what imbeciles command, what rogues teach, and young children are made to learn by heart.
Voltaire
Prejudice is opinion without judgment
Voltaire
Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do
Voltaire
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'Lord, make my enemies ridiculous!' And God granted it.
Voltaire
Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion.
Steven Weinberg
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible
Oscar Wilde
A cult is a religion with no political power
Tom Wolfe
