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The problem is that people think faith is something to be admired. In fact, faith means you believe in something for which you have no evidence.

— Victor J. Stenger In God and the Folly of Faith: The Incompatibility of Science (2012)

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The transition of nothing-to-something is a natural one, not requiring any agent.

God: The Failed Hypothesis (2007)

The fact that we have something is just what we would expect if there is no God.

God: The Failed Hypothesis (2007)

The so-called mysteries of quantum mechanics are in its philosophical interpretation, not in its mathematics.

In God and the Folly of Faith: The Incompatibility of Science and Religion (2012)

Infinity...is used in physics simply as a shorthand for "a very big number.”

God: The Failed Hypothesis (2007)

Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings.

In The New Atheism: Taking a Stand for Science and Reason (2009)

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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

William James The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)

Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

Thomas Jefferson Letter to Peter Carr (1787)

I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.

Colin Wilson Postscript to the Outsider (1967)

Love is the active, working principle in all true faith. It is its very soul, without which it is dead. "Faith works by love."

Jonathan Edwards Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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