Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.Sigmund Freud
Incidentally, why was it that none of all the pious ever discovered psycho-analysis? Why did it have to wait for a completely godless Jew?Sigmund Freud
An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins.Dwight D. Eisenhower
I can't gather around and talk about how much everybody in the room doesn't believe in God. I just don't - I don't have the energy for that, and so I... Agnostic separates me from the conduct of atheists whether or not there is strong overlap between the two categories, and at the end of the day I'd rather not be any category at all.Neil deGrasse Tyson
All Plutophiles are based in America. If you go to other countries, they have much less of an attachment to either the existence or preservation of Pluto as a planet. Once you investigate that, you find out that Disney's dog Pluto was sketched the same year the cosmic object was discovered. And Pluto was discovered by an American.Neil deGrasse Tyson
I'm constantly claimed by atheists. I find this intriguing. In fact, on my Wiki page - I didn't create the Wiki page, others did, and I'm flattered that people cared enough about my life to assemble it - and it said, 'Neil deGrasse is an atheist.'Neil deGrasse Tyson
All Plutophiles are based in America. If you go to other countries, they have much less of an attachment to either the existence or preservation of Pluto as a planet.Neil deGrasse Tyson
Whoever has once been truly unsettled by a work of the imagination will never give loyalty to a single idea, belief system, religious faith or party.Howard Jacobson
I wouldn't suppose for one moment that there's a single one of Trump's voters that would be anything but confirmed in their beliefs.Howard Jacobson