Citate ateiste

“I cannot understand why we idle discussing religion. If we are honest—and scientists have to be—we must admit that religion is a jumble of false assertions, with no basis in reality. ---  Paul Dirac

“Science knows it doesn't know everything; otherwise, it'd stop. But just because science doesn't know everything doesn't mean you can fill in the gaps with whatever fairy tale most appeals to you.” -- Dara Ó Briain

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"If the only thing keeping a person decent is the expectation of divine reward then, brother, that person is a piece of ****  "  - Rustin Cohle (True Detective character)

It’s insulting to imply that only a system of rewards and punishments can keep you a decent human being. Isn’t it conceivable a person wants to be a decent human being because that way he feels better?

Isaac Asimov

„Convingerile sunt inamicii adevărului, mai periculoase decât minciunile.” — Thomas Mann

"An atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated."
- Madalyn Murray O'Hair

"Unii oameni consideră că știința este arogantă, în special atunci când contrazice credințe adânc înrădăcinate sau când introduce concepte care contrazic bunul simț. [Știința] este ca un cutremur care ne zguduie convingerile, care dărâmă dogmele de care suntem atașați, și asta poate să deranjeze. Totuși eu cred că există umilință în știință. Oamenii de știință nu impun ceea ce vor ei Naturii, ei doar încearcă să întrebe cu umilință Natura și să ia în serios ceea descoperă."

- Carl Sagan

"Nu există întrebări interzise în știință, nu există nimic prea sensibil sau prea delicat pentru a nu fi cercetat, nu există adevăruri sacre. Știința este deschisă la idei noi și, împreună cu un control sceptic riguros, ea poate cerne grâul de neghină."

- Carl Sagan

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With every step, every window that modern astrophysics has opened to our mind, the person who wants to feel like they’re the center of everything ends up shrinking. And for some people they might even find it depressing, I assert that if you were depressed after learning and being exposed to the perspective, you started your day with an unjustifiably large ego. You thought more highly of yourself than in fact the circumstances deserved. - Neil deGrasse Tyson

Cel mai trist aspect al vieţii actuale este că ştiinţa acumulează cunoştinte mai repede decât acumulează societatea înţelepciune.
Isaac Asimov

"Nu exista nici un da, dar si caricaturistii...Nu pot accepta argumentul ca ziaristii trebuie sa-si limiteze libertatea de exprimare pentru a menaja sensibilitati religioase, politice sau de alta natura."

- Dan Tapalaga

"Dacă din tot masacrul ăsta din Paris o să se înțeleagă numai că trebuie mai mult creștinism în fața islamului, în loc de cuget liber, și că idolul nostru e mai bun decât al lor, și că hai să dăm mai mult la biserici în fața barbarilor, în loc să încetăm să mai adorăm momâi inexistente, deși intolerante, atunci înseamnă că asasinii au câștigat."

- Dan Alexe

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„Oameni buni! Avem nevoie de școli, de lumină, de cultură, nu de popi, de întuneric și de ignoranță, de exploatarea prostii omenești de către om. Dacă încercați vreodată sentimentul larg al expansiunii omenești, dați atunci pentru școli, căci școala va fi evanghelia viitorului!“

-- Constantin Thiron, 1912.

"Cuvantul Dumnezeu nu reprezinta pentru mine decat o expresie si un produs al slabiciunii umane. Biblia este pentru mine o colectie de legende onorabile, dar primitive si copilaresti. Nici o interpretare, oricat de subtila ar fi ea, nu-mi poate schimba aceasta perceptie. Pentru mine, religia evreiasca, la fel ca toate celelalte religii, este o intrupare a celor mai copilaresti superstitii.
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"Este, desigur, o minciuna ceea ce ati citit despre convingerile mele religioase, o minciuna care este repetata in mod sistematic. Nu cred intr-un Dumnezeu personal si niciodata nu m-am dezis de acest lucru, ci l-am exprimat clar. Daca exista ceva in mine care poate fi numit religios, atunci acel lucru este nemarginita admiratie pentru structura lumii, atat cat stiinta ne-a aratat-o pana acum." - Albert Einstein

The Tomb of Adam
by Mark Twain

The Greek chapel is the most roomy, the richest and the showiest chapel in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Its altar, like that of all the Greek churches, is a lofty screen that extends clear across the chapel, and is gorgeous with gilding and pictures. The numerous lamps that hang before it are of gold and silver, and cost great sums.

But the feature of the place is a short column that rises from the middle of the marble pavement of the chapel, and marks the exact centre of the earth.
To satisfy himself that this spot was really the centre of the earth, a skeptic once paid well for the privilege of ascending to the dome of the church, to see if the sun gave him a shadow at noon. He came down perfectly convinced. The day was very cloudy, and the sun threw no shadows at all; but the man was satisfied that if the sun had come out and made shadows, it could not have made any for him. Proofs like these are not to be set aside by the idle tongues of cavilers. To such as are not bigoted, and are willing to be convinced, they carry a conviction that nothing can ever shake.

If even greater proofs than those I have mentioned are wanted, to satisfy the headstrong and foolish that this is the genuine centre of the earth, they are here. The greatest of them lies in the fact that from under this very column was taken the dust from which Adam was made. This can surely be regarded in the light of a settler. It is not likely that the original first man would have been made from an inferior quality of earth, when it was entirely convenient to get first quality from the world's centre. This will strike any reflecting mind forcibly. That Adam was formed of dirt procured in this very spot, is amply proven by the fact that in six thousand years no man has ever been able to prove that the dirt was not procured here whereof he was made.

It is a singular circumstance that right under the roof of this same great church, and not far away from that illustrious column, Adam himself, the father of the human race, lies buried. There is no question that he is actually buried in the grave which is pointed out as his--there can be none--because it has never yet been proven that that grave is not the grave in which he is buried.

The tomb of Adam! How touching it was, here in a land of strangers, far away from home and friends and all who cared for me, thus to discover the grave of a blood-relation! True, a distant one, but still a relation. The unerring instinct of nature thrilled its recognition. The foundation of my filial affection was stirred to its profoundest depths, and I gave way to tumultuous emotion.

I leaned upon a pillar and burst into tears. I deem it no shame to have wept over the grave of my poor dead relative. Let him who would sneer at my emotion close this volume here, for he will find little to his taste in my journeyings through Holy Land. Noble old man--he did not live to see me--he did not live to see his child. And I--I--alas, I did not live to see him. Weight down by sorrow and disappointment, he died before I was born--six thousand brief summers before I was born. But let us try to bear it with fortitude. Let us trust that he is better off where he is. Let us take comfort in the thought that his loss is our eternal gain.

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         Dalai Lama