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"The fact that a believer is happier than a sceptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one"
George Bernard Shaw
"Het moet toch voor ieder welingelicht mens duidelijk zijn wie de wedloop tussen de theologie en de empirische wetenschappen, die aanvankelijk nog onbeslist was, heeft gewonnen. Maar dat wensen theologen natuurlijk niet te zien. Dat is ook de reden dat ze vrijwel nooit kennis nemen van bijvoorbeeld de sterrenkunde, de evolutiebiologie, de neurowetenschap; ze zijn er niet eens in geïnteresséérd."
Herman Philipse
"Theologen zouden eigenlijk verplicht moeten worden een cursus logica te volgen. De meest elementaire regels voor gezond nadenken worden door hen met voeten getreden."
Herman Philipse
"Natuurlijk geloofden mijn kinderen in Sinterklaas. Buiten Nederland gelooft niemand in hem, laat staan in Zwarte Piet. Het geloof in Sinterklaas is erfgoed, van generatie op generatie overgedragen. Mijn kinderen geloofden omdat ze dat op de meest goedgelovige leeftijd, de leeftijd dat ze hun wereldbeeld vormden, hebben geleerd van hun ouders, de mensen die ze het meest vertrouwen. Idem voor elk religieus geloof. De kinderen van Hosni Mubarak zijn moslim, die van koningin Beatrix Nederlands-Hervormd. Dat is geen toeval, en ook geen gevolg van goddelijke interventie, geloof is cultuur."
Ronald Plasterk
"Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence."
Richard Dawkins
"I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue. But much as I want to believe that, and despite the ancient and worldwide cultural traditions that assert an afterlife, I know of nothing to suggest that it is more than wishful thinking."
Carl Sagan
"My young son asked me what happens after we die. I told him we get buried under a bunch of dirt and worms eat our bodies. I guess I should have told him the truth - that most of us go to Hell and burn eternally - but I didn't want to upset him."
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"Religions do make claims about the universe, the same kinds of claims that scientists make, except they're usually false."
Richard Dawkins
"I don't think God is an explanation at all. It's simply redescribing the problem."
Richard Dawkins
"I call him free who is led solely by reason."
Spinoza
"It is often said, mainly by the "no-contests", that although there is no positive evidence for the existence of God, nor is there evidence against his existence. So it is best to keep an open mind and be agnostic. At first sight that seems an unassailable position, at least in the weak sense of Pascal's wager. But on second thoughts it seems a cop-out, because the same could be said of Father Christmas and tooth fairies. There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?"
Richard Dawkins
"Calling Atheism a religion, is like calling 'bald' a hair color."
Don Hirschberg
"I have something to say to the religionist who feels atheists never say anything positive: You are an intelligent human being. Your life is valuable for its own sake. You are not second-class in the universe, deriving meaning and purpose from some other mind. You are not inherently evil -- you are inherently human, possessing the positive rational potential to help make this a world of morality, peace and joy. Trust yourself."
Dan Barker
"To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today."
Isaac Asimov
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."
Philip K. Dick
"Religion teaches the dangerous nonsense that death is not the end."
Richard Dawkins