Stephen Hawking Quotes

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'

If we believe not with faith divine and supernatural, we believe not at all.

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

From the point of view of many scientists, gods represent an explanation for the unknown. Scientists are focused on trying to understand the unknown, so there is a fundamental conflict. That said, some scientists find religion useful and perhaps even fulfilling.

Secular humanists suspect there is something more gloriously human about resisting the religious impulse; about accepting the cold truth, even if that truth is only that the universe is as indifferent to us as we are to it.

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

I've met secular humanists who grew up in evangelical households, for whom 'Cosmos' was their first exposure to a scientific way of viewing the world.

I'm an atheist, and I don't have any belief in an afterlife.

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.

Science can have no quarrel with a religion which postulates a God to whom men are His children.

I am an atheist because there is no evidence for the existence of God. That should be all that needs to be said about it: no evidence, no belief.

I have the honesty to say I'm an Atheist. There is nothing that supports the idea of a personal God.

A mere society form of Atheism.

I'm not a believer, I call myself an atheist. It was man who invented God. I once wrote that there are 15 things I know about God, and one is that he is allergic to shellfish. There are far too many commandments and you really only need one: Do not hurt anybody.

Of course I am not religious — I don't in fact see how any scientist who thinks at all deeply can be so.

I cannot accept any concept of God based on the fear of life or the fear of death, or blind faith. I cannot prove to you that there is no personal God, but if I were to speak of him I would be a liar.

An atheist is more reclaimable than a papist, as ignorance is sooner cured than superstition.

What am I supposed to say to an atheist when he sneezes, ah, when you die nothing happens.

I'm an Atheist. I don't believe in God, Gods, Godlets or any sort of higher power beyond the universe itself, which seems quite high and powerful enough to me.

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

An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.

Nature made us - nature did it all - not the gods of the religions.

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 can definitely make an argument for atheism. I was very educated in scripture and dogma and the church, particularly the Catholic Church. I could not possibly know that I disagreed with religion unless I knew what I was disagreeing with.

I am also atheist or agnostic (I don't even know the difference). I've never been to church and prefer to think for myself.