belief Quotes

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

You have your ideology and I have mine.

Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that.

If there is a God, it's going to be a whole lot bigger and a whole lot more incomprehensible than anything that any theologian of any religion has ever proposed.

People really, really hate their religion being criticized. It's as though you've said they had an ugly face; they seem to identify personally with it.

Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by reasoned argument because reasoned argument is drummed out of those trained in religion from the cradle.

I suppose if you look back to your early childhood you accept everything people tell you, and that includes a heavy dose of irrationality - you're told about tooth fairies and Father Christmas and things.

If you were to actually travel around schools and universities and listen in on lectures about evolution, you might find a fairly substantial fraction of young people, without knowing what it is they disapprove of, think they disapprove of it, because they've been brought up to.

God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.

At least the fundamentalists haven't tried to dilute their message. Their faith is exposed for what it is for all to see.