Over the last couple of months I've posted a lot of my favorite quotes on topics such as theism and skepticism to my Twitter page, and I decided to compile them here. It's remarkable that combining just a few words in the right order can produce such powerful and thought-provoking ideas.
Here are some quotes on religion and theism:
- "What worries me about religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding." –Richard Dawkins
- "All [divine command theorists] can say about Al Qaeda and the Taliban is that they’re mistaken about what God commands." –Chris Hallquist
- "When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours." –Stephen Roberts
- "As a kid I used to pray every night for a new bike. Then I realized the Lord doesn't work that way. So I just stole one and asked Him to forgive me." –comedian Emo Philips
- "With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil—that takes religion." –Steven Weinberg
- "Mythology is someone else's religion, different enough from your own for its absurdity to be obvious." –Anonymous
And on science, knowledge and skepticism:
- "Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science." –Charles Darwin
- "The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance; it is the illusion of knowledge." –Stephen Hawking
- "Throughout history, every mystery ever solved has turned out to be... not magic." –Tim Minchin
- "You are not a Bayesian homunculus whose reasoning is 'corrupted' by cognitive biases. You just are cognitive biases." –Luke Muehlhauser
- "If you attend only to favorable evidence, picking and choosing from your gathered data, then the more data you gather, the less you know." –Eliezer Yudkowsky
- "If you are equally good at explaining any outcome, you have zero knowledge." –Eliezer Yudkowsky
- "Everything is a mystery from the dawn of human experience right up until someone solves it." –Eliezer Yudkowsky
- "The problem with Islam, then, is not that it has got the wrong moral theory; it’s that it has got the wrong God." –Christian apologist William Lane Craig
- "Natural science at the moment seems to overwhelmingly point to an old cosmos." –YECs Paul Nelson & John Reynolds
- ID must create a "theory of biological design. We don't have such a theory right now, and that's a real problem." –YEC/IDist Paul Nelson
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