Albert Einstein
Physicist
"The more I study science, the more I believe in God."
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Joseph McCarthy
Politician
"Today we are engaged in a final, all-out battle between communistic atheism and Christianity."
Isaac Newton
Mathematician, Physicist, Astronomer
"I know not how I seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with while the vast ocean of undiscovered truth lay before me."
Joseph McCarthy
Politician
"Today we are engaged in a final, all-out battle between communistic atheism and Christianity. The modern champions of communism have selected this as the time, and ladies and gentlemen, the chips are down - they are truly down."
Isaac Newton
Mathematician, Physicist, Astronomer
"I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily."
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"I had always hoped that this land might become a safe and agreeable asylum to the virtuous and persecuted part of mankind, to whatever nation they might belong."
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"Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves."
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"Do not allow yourselves to be deceived: Great Minds are Skeptical."
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"All religions must be tolerated ... every man must go to heaven in his own way. [Die Religionen müssen alle toleriert werden ... denn hier muss ein jeder nach seiner Fasson selig werden.]"
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"I think no human being can give more than this. Making life possible for the other, if only for a moment."
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"The Pope? How many divisions has he got?"
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"When they have opened a gap in the ... wall of separation between the Garden of the Church and the wildernes of the world, God hath ever ... made his Garden a Wildernesse."
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"I'm not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions of the same untruth, but I hold that the influence of churches, and the effect of religious belief, is positively harmful."
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"What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents."
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"You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion."
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"Theologians are all alike, of whatever religion or country they may be; their aim is always to wield despotic authority over men's consciences; they therefore persecute all of us who have the temerity to tell the truth."
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"There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous."
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"Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts"
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"I am surrounded by priests who repeat incessantly that their kingdom is not of this world, and yet they lay their hands on everything they can get."
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"Atheism is not the denial of the existence of God, but having doubts as to whether God is conscious."
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"God was invented to explain mystery. God is always invented to explain those things that you do not understand."
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"Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful."
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"If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take the bible seriously, one must be already mad."
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"Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable."
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"I was convinced that our beliefs are based much more on custom and example than on any certain knowledge."
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