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

— Victor J. Stenger In The New Atheism: Taking a Stand for Science and Reason (2009)

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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)

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)

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All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

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Science and religion are two human enterprises sharing many features.

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The moment the idea is admitted into society, that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.

John Adams A Defence of the Constitutions of Government (1787)

The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

Thomas Babington Macaulay History of England (1849)

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