"It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring" - Carl Sagan
"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" - George Bernard Shaw
"Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence." - Richard Dawkins
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich" - Napoleon Bonaparte
"I believe that all important matters have to be settled here, not in the clouds somewhere after we kick off" - Billy Joel
"Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. A man full of faith is simply one who has lost (or never had) the capacity for clear and realistic thought. He is not a mere ass: he is actually ill"
"We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God who creates faulty humans and then blames them for his own mistakes" - Gene Roddenberry
"By the year 2000, we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God" - Gloria Steinem
"Faith is believing something you know ain't true" - Mark Twain
"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful" - Lucius Annaues Seneca
