"About once or twice every month I engage in public debates with those whose pressing need it is to woo and to win the approval of supernatural beings. Very often, when I give my view that there is no ..."
- Christopher Hitchens
"Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Study, along the lines which the theologies have mapped, will never lead us to discovery of the fundamental facts of our existence. That goal must be attained by means of exact science and can only be..."
- Thomas A. Edison
"If there is a Creator-God, it has used methods of creation that are indistinguishable from nature, it has declined to make itself known for all of recorded history, it doesn't intervene in affairs on ..."
- David G. McAfee
"I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise,Regardless of others, ever regardful of others,Maternal as well as paternal, a child as well as a man,Stuffed with the stuff that is course, a..."
- Walt Whitman
"The smaller the creature, the bolder its spirit."
- Suzy Kassem
"Will be but corpses dressed in frocks, who cannot speak to birds or rocks."
- Gary Snyder
"Mother Nature created God as a neurological anti-depressant sentiment, but Man tore that God apart into pieces and made citadels of differentiation out of them."
- Abhijit Naskar
"My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real."
- Gustave Flaubert
"Science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is simply a great machine which never came into being and never will end. The human being is no excepti..."
- Nikola Tesla