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God
God is a term referring to the concept of a supreme being, generally believed to be ruler or creator of, and/or immanent within, the universe.
Unsorted
- "When people ask what my beliefs are, I respond that if I try to explain I would get lost." --Edgar Mendez P
- "The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity." --John Adams
- "To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as ridiculous as a claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin." --Cardinal Bellarmine [at the trial of Galileo in 1615]
- "I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious ideas of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God. So far as religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake... Religion is all bunk." --Thomas Edison
- "Science without religion is crippled. Religion without science is blind." --Albert Einstein
- "I pity the man who says there isn't a Supreme Being [...] every one who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe." --Albert Einstein
- "All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree." --Albert Einstein
- "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed." --Albert Einstein
- "God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world." --Paul Dirac (1902 ~ 1984, nobel prize in physics)
- "The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation." --Newton (1642 ~ 1727, law of universal gravitation)
- "The most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion on an intelligent and powerful Being." --Isaac Newton
- "Mathematics is the language in which God wrote the universe." --Galileo Galilei (1564 ~ 1642)
- "I do not think it is necessary to believe that the same God who has given us our senses, reason, and intelligence wished us to abandon their use, giving us by some other means the information that we could gain through them." --Galileo Galilei (1564 ~ 1642)
- "Rule #1 when interpreting God or the will of God is to keep it to yourself unless you want to become the God of someone else's life. However, it is important to discuss the need for a god or moral laws in other peoples lives for the sake of humanity." --Anonymous
- "So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence." --Bertrand Russell
- "Calling Atheism a religion is like calling bald a hair color." --Don Hirschberg
- "A God who cannot smile could not have created this humorous universe." --Thoughts and Aphorisms by Sri Aurobindo
- "It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious, then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it."
[From a letter Albert Einstein wrote in English, dated 24 March 1954. It is included in Albert Einstein: The Human Side, edited by Helen Dukas and Banesh Hoffman, published by Princeton University Press.]
- "God helps those who help themselves." --Algernon Sidney
- "Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived." --Isaac Asimov
- "Give according to your means, or God will make your means according to your giving." --Reverend John Hall (1829 ~ 1898)
- "I expect death to be nothingness and, for removing me from all possible fears of death, I am thankful to atheism." --Isaac Asimov
- "Things could not have been brought into being by God in any manner or in any order different from that which has in fact obtained." ~ Baruch (Benedict) Spinoza
- "You can live without God, but you better not die without him." --(origin needed)
- "I think I'll believe in Gosh instead of God. If you don't believe in Gosh too, you'll be darned to heck." --anonymous
- "God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road." -Isak Dinesen
- "If God lived on earth, people would break his windows." --Anonymous
- "Never tell a young person that something cannot be done. God may have been waiting for centuries for somebody ignorant enough of the impossibility to do that thing." --Dr. J.A. Holmes
- "It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived." --General George S. Patton, Jr.
- "God is real, unless declared Integer." --J. Allan Toogood
- A man who recognizes no God is probably placing an inordinate value on himself. --Robertson Davies, Conversations
- The concept of God can only be disputed in reference to the understanding of the beholder. --Anonymous
- If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him. -- Voltaire
- "I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that if God would have existed, it would be necessary to abolish Him" --Mikhail Bakunin (On God and the State)
- "More people have been killed in the name of God than any other reason." --George Carlin
- "Faith must have adequate evidence, else it is mere superstition." --Alexander Hodge
- "A doubter might come closer to God than all the churchgoers." --Anonymous
- "I have more faith in my plumber than I do the eternal being. Plumbers do a good job. They keep the shit flowing." --Charles Bukowski
- "God's just a mean kid with a magnifying glass. And we're the ants." -- Bruce Nolan
- "God is the dream of good government." -- Morpheus, Deus Ex
- "If you do not believe in a personal God the question: ‘What is the purpose of life?’ is unaskable and unanswerable." J.R.R. Tolkien
- "Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just. " Thomas Jefferson
Gender related
- "I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her." -- Arthur C. Clark
- "A FEMALE GOD? She's just kidding, Mister Lord!" -- Marge Simpson
See also
- Life
- Death
- Atheism
- Religion
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