Robert Andrews Millikan Quotes

Go ahead and believe in God , if you like, but don't imagine that you have been given any grounds for such a belief by science.

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.

Through history, people look for something spiritual. The greatest scientists in the world were men of religion and faith, too.

I am surprised that anyone can profess to be an atheist.

It is not the Head but the Heart that is the Seat of Atheism.

Intellectually, now, I believe that it is a complete vanity to say positively there is no God.

You happen to be talking to an agnostic. You know what an agnostic is? A cowardly atheist.

I suppose I'm a lapsed Catholic. You would consider me an atheist or agnostic.

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

My father was an agnostic.

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

The undevout astronomer must be mad.

Oh, I don't talk about God.

I could never take the idea of religion very seriously.

I'm a very hard-line, angry atheist. Yet I am fascinated by the concept of devotion.

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, they don’t believe in nothing, they believe in anything.

I don't think I have any particular problem with God.

I am an absolute atheist.

I will tell you that I'm not religious.

I've never met a happy atheist.

I believe that the more thoroughly science is studied, the further does it take us from anything comparable to atheism.

I am not an atheist. An atheist is someone who has compelling evidence that there is no Judeo-Christian-Islamic God. I am not that wise, but neither do I consider there to be anything approaching adequate evidence for such a god. Why are you in such a hurry to make up your mind? Why not simply wait until there is compelling evidence?