" Irrational thinking of any kind is very dangerous, ...I wish that with the progress of science we could inject a little bit more rationality in the world. But in that sense we have failed. " | " Religious concepts are human concepts with a few emendations that make them wondrous and a longer list of standard traits that make them sensible to our ordinary ways of knowing. " | " The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church. " |
" Religion is the general theory of this world, ...and its universal basis of consolation and justification. " | " All thinking men are atheists. " | " Turn over the pages of history and read the damning record of the church's opposition to every advance in every field of science. " |
