Carl Sagan

top atheist quotes (total: 13)

atheist quote	context
You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep-seated need to believe.		332 4172
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence		205 3255
Atheism is more than just the knowledge that gods do not exist, and that religion is either a mistake or a fraud. Atheism is an attitude, a frame of mind that looks at the world objectively, fearlessly, always trying to understand all things as a part of nature		60 1208
Life is but a momentary glimpse of the wonder of the astonishing universe, and it is sad to see so many dreaming it away on spiritual fantasy.		70 923
It is better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.		3 345
Your god is too small for my universe.		1 141
If we say that God has always been, why not save a step and conclude that the universe has always been?		50
I dont want to believe.I want to know..		1 49
I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue. But as much as I want to believe that, and despite the ancient and worldwide cultural traditions that assert an afterlife, I know of nothing to suggest that it is more than wishful thinking.		35
If by "god" one means the set of physical laws that govern the universe, then clearly there is such a god. This god is emotionally unsatisfying....it does not make much sense to pray to the law of gravity.		1 23
How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, 'This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant'? Instead they say, 'No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.' A religion, old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the Universe as revealed by modern science might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths		9
It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English -- up to fifty words used in correct context -- no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.		9
I cannot conceive of a god who rewards and punishes his creatures or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves. Neither can I nor would I want to conceive of an individual that survives his physical death; let feeble souls, from fear or		2 14

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