Nick Sagan Quotes

I'm kind of an evangelical atheist.

The public schools tend to teach little kids from when they are very young about the whole universe without God and that God cannot be in science. They are indoctrinating children in an atheistic religious view of things.

From my point of view, there is a tremendous amount to be said for secular humanism.

Visit a typical science classroom and you will discover far more than empirical facts being taught. The dominant worldview among scientific intellectuals is evolutionary naturalism, which holds that humans are essentially biochemical machines.

Humanists are not characteristically strong in faith, hope and love.

Atheism has been on the rise for years now, and the Bible of the atheists is 'The Origin of Species.'

Science has been such an instrument used by the materialists to undermine the Christian faith and religious belief generally.

Society must fight against this belief in God as it fought against idol worship and other narrow conceptions of religion. In this way man will try to stand on his feet. Being realistic, he will have to throw his faith aside and face all adversaries with courage and valour. That is exactly my state of mind.

Atheism comes into rather a bad press and I suppose I'd rather describe myself as a humanist... I don't believe in God. I don't believe there is a God.

Atheism is just a way of clearing the space for better conversations.

Atheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith, and every word they speak speaks of faith. Like me, they go as far as the legs of reason will carry them -- and then they leap.

I do not believe in God. I'm an atheist. I consider myself a critical thinker, and it fascinates me that in the 21st century most people still believe in, as George Carlin puts it, 'the invisible man living in the sky'

We are materialists and atheists, and we glory in the fact.

In my experience, the people who call themselves “atheists,” regardless of how they define this term, rarely take the possibility of God’s existence seriously.

I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.

Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world.

I have no beliefs of a religious kind.

I don't bill myself as an atheist but as a naturalist. Naturalism is a belief system. A lot of scientists bristle at that. We all have to believe we can find the truth. Evidence is my guide. I rely on observation, experimentation and verification.

Man can know his world without falling back on revelation; he can live his life without feeling his utter dependence on supernatural powers.

I'm an atheist, but I'm very relaxed about it. I don't preach my atheism, but I have a huge amount of respect for people like Richard Dawkins who do.

I've taken a stand against religion for as long I've been able to write and think.

For students, the evolution-creation discussion can be a useful exercise, for it can help develop their critical thinking skills.

There is a class, moreover, by whom all these scientific theories, and more are held as ascertained facts, and as the basis of philosophical inferences which strike at the root of theistic beliefs.

We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference, unmixed with considerations of a different order.

I think I like big issues, but I don't believe in God or religion.