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

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

In God and the Folly of Faith: The Incompatibility of Science (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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If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is: infinite.

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Pure mathematics consists entirely of assertions to the effect that, if such and such a proposition is true of anything, then such and such another proposition is true of that thing.

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