1. To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
   -Isaac Asimov
   


2. Pray – (verb): To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
   -Ambrose Bierce, Devil's Dictionary
   


3. When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realized that the Lord doesn’t work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.
   -Emo Philips, stand-up comedian
   


4. When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realized that the Lord doesn’t work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.
   -Emo Philips, stand-up comedian
   


5. Creationists make it sound as though a theory is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
   -Isaac Asimov
   


6. All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
   -Thomas Paine
   


7. So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
   -Bertrand Russell
   


8. God himself has no right to be a tyrant.
   -William Godwin
   


9. Science has done more for the development of Western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
   -Jeff Burroughs
   


10. If the gods do evil then they are not gods.
    -Euripides
    


11. Those of little faith are of little hatred.
    -Eric Hoffer
    


12. Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other “sins” are invented nonsense.
    -Robert A. Heinlein
    


13. Which is it: Is man one of God’s blunders or is God one of man’s?
    -Friedrich Nietzsche
    


14. We have fossils... We win!
    -Lewis Black, on creationism
    


15. The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.
    -George Bernard Shaw
    


16. If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
    -G.K. Chesterton
    


17. With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
    -Steven Weinberg, winner of the 1979 Nobel Prize in physics
    


18. Our gods are dead. Ancient Klingon warriors slew them a millennia ago. They were...more trouble than they were worth.
    -Worf, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, “Homefront”