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I don't know what it is about fecundity that so appalls. I suppose it is the teeming evidence that birth and growth, which we value, are ubiquitous and blind, that life itself is so astonishingly cheap, that nature is as careless as it is bountiful, and that with extravagance goes a crushing waste that will one day include our own cheap lives.

I don't see how you have the nerve to oppose this bill when you run the biggest gambling business in the world - gambling on the hereafter.

I don't spend much time thinking about whether God exists. I don't consider that a relevant question. It's unanswerable and irrelevant to my life, so I put it in the category of things I can't worry about.

I don't think God is an explanation at all. It's simply redescribing the problem. We are trying to understand how we have got a complicated world, and we have an explanation in terms of a slightly simpler world, and we explain that in terms of a slightly simpler world and it all hangs together down to an ultimately simple world. Now, God is not an explanation of that kind. God himself cannot be simple if he has power to do all the things he is supposed to do.

I don't think there is a need for an entity like God in my life.

I don't think there's a problem. First of all, I don't think music turns people into social liabilities. Because you hear a lyric - there's no medical proof that a person hearing a lyric is going to act out the lyric. There's also no medical proof that if you hear any collection of vowels and consonants, that the hearing of that collection is going to send you to Hell.

I don't want them (religious followers) trying to inflict their belief on me.

I doubt the fact, to begin with, but if it be so even, what is this but in grand words asking me to believe a thing because I like it.

I expect death to be nothingness and, for removing me from all possible fears of death, I am thankful to atheism.

I enjoy being at a meeting that doesn't start with an invocation!

If Aims impel these Astral Ones The ones allowed to know Know that which makes them as forgot As Dawn forgets them now

If a hit came along, I wouldn't be unhappy about that. But I'm a bit too old for that now-doing videos and all those types of TV shows. I've kind of done all that, in the '70s.

If all the historic books of the Bible were blotted from the memory of mankind, nothing of value would be lost.

If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.

If any religion allows the persecution of the people of different faiths, if any religion keeps women in slavery, if any religion keeps people in ignorance, then I can't accept that religion.

If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be — a Christian.

I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.

If atheism is a religion, then off is a TV channel and bald is a hair colour.

If faith is a valid tool of knowledge, then anything can be true 'by faith,' and therefore nothing is true. If the only reason you can accept a claim is by faith, then you are admitting that the claim does not stand on its own merits.

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings.

I felt like a loser. I was unhappy as a child most of the time. We were terribly poor and I hated my size.

If God is a crutch, then atheism is a coma.

If God is pleased in making you sick and unhappy, I hate God.

If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

If God objected to [people with various handicaps], he ought not have created such people.

If God allows proof that he exists he robs people of faith and without faith what is God? Nothing.

If god wanted people to believe in him, why'd he invent logic then?

If God has made us in his image, we have returned him the favor.

If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.

If 'god' is a metaphysical term, then it cannot be even probable that a god exists. For to say that 'God exists' is to make a metaphysical utterance which cannot be either true or false. And by the same criterion, no sentence which purports to describe the nature of a transcendent god can possess any literal significance.

If God is God He is not good, if God is good He is not God; take the even, take the odd.

If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.

If I could have my way I would place the Deity on half-pay as the Government of this Country did the subaltern officers.

I finally decided that I'm a creature of emotion as well as of reason. Emotionally, I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time.

If I had my way, the world would hear a pretty stern command - Exit Christ.

If men do their best endeavours to free themselves from all errors, and yet fail of it through human frailty, so well I am persuaded of the goodness of God, that if in me alone should meet a confluence of all such errors of all the Protestants in the world that were thus qualified, I should not be so much afraid of them all, as I should be to ask pardon for them.

I find that the whole weight of relieving human misery and distress falls on the shoulders of those Heretics and Infidels; and though great part of this distress has been occasioned by those ravening wolves' hopeful converts.

If Islam is to be reconciled with modernity, these voices must be encouraged until they swell into a roar.

If it is to be established that there is a God, then we have to have good grounds for believing that this is indeed so. Until and unless some such grounds are produced we have literally no reason at all for believing; and in that situation the only reasonable posture must be that of either the negative atheist or the agnostic. So the onus of proof has to rest on the proposition of theism.

If language is to be of any use to us, then we ought to try and preserve the meaning of words, and 'god' historically has not meant the laws of nature.

If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust, and, in short, of coming eventually to hopeless misery. He would break down, at last, as every good fortune, as every dynasty, as every civilization does. In place of this we have death.

If nothing once, you nothing lose, For when you die you are the same; The space between is but an hour, The frail duration of a flower.

If nothing we do matters... , then all that matters is what we do

If nature did not take delight in blood, She would have made more easy ways to good.

If it were true that Christianity and science were incompatible, there would be no Christians who were respected scientists. If fact, about forty percent of professional natural scientists are practicing Christians, and many others are theists of other kinds. Fewer than thirty percent are atheists.

If I understand Dirac correctly, his meaning is this: there is no God, and Dirac is his Prophet.

If I were to speak your kind of language, I would say that man's only moral commandment is: Thou shalt think. But a 'moral commandment' is a contradiction in terms. The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments.

If miracles be incredible, Christianity is false. If Christ wrought no miracles, then the Gospels are untrustworthy.

If my church attempted to influence me in a way which was improper or which affected adversely my responsibilities as a public servant sworn to uphold the Constitution, then I would reply to them that this was an improper action on their part. It was one to which I could not subscribe.