"We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further."
— Richard Dawkins

"By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out."
— Richard Dawkins

"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. "
— Isaac Asimov

"Don't you believe in flying saucers, they ask me? Don't you believe in telepathy? — in ancient astronauts? — in the Bermuda triangle? — in life after death?
No, I reply. No, no, no, no, and again no.
One person recently, goaded into desperation by the litany of unrelieved negation, burst out "Don't you believe in anything?"
"Yes", I said. "I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I'll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it. The wilder and more ridiculous something is, however, the firmer and more solid the evidence will have to be." "
— Isaac Asimov

"A nation which thinks that it is belief in God and not good law which makes people honest does not seem to me very advanced."
— Denis Diderot