Jules Verne Quotes

The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.

The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance.

Gods are fragile things, they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.

When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.

Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.

To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy.

Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths.

I do not believe in God because I do not believe in Mother Goose.

Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

I don't believe in God.

When a religion becomes organized it is no longer a religious experience but only superstition and estrangement.

The superstition of science scoffs at the superstition of faith.

When men stop believing in God, they don’t believe in nothing, they believe in anything.

All religions are, in some basic sense, irrational.

The opposite of faith is not doubt: It is certainty. It is madness. You can tell you have created God in your own image when it turns out that he or she hates all the same people you do.

The enemy of science is not religion. Religion comes in endless shapes and forms... The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma.

I actually pray everyday, but I don't believe in God.

I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.

Religion works on some people but not on everyone, because it says, 'Stop thinking and accept what I tell you.' That's not valid for people who want to think and reflect.

There's been some research in cognitive science, I'm told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, it's white noise.

My work explores the frontier between rationalism and superstition and the wavering boundary between the two.

I don't believe in God.

Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot be true, I began to reflect what must be the condition of mankind trained from infancy to believe in error.

If you can believe in God, then you can believe in anything. It's a gang mentality.

And one of my other friends could not believe in God if he came down and tapped her on the shoulder. She's a biologist - a student at UCLA - and I don't judge her either, because I really believe that God is a personal opinion, and only that.