" To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. " | " Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence. " | " When people are prepared to accept one of twenty or thirty different stories from thousands of years ago, I wonder what else are they prepared to accept when it comes to decisions which affect me. " |
" What kind of mind would do something as useless as inventing ghosts and bribing them for good weather? " | " It just seems to me so patent that what man has done is to project himself into the heavens, where he can be all-powerful, as he is not here. " | " That a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality of happiness. " |
