#agnostic

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There`s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning. ↗

— Bill Gates

#atheism #efficiency #religion #religion

Education levels are highly and negatively correlated to religious belief. In other words, ignorance is bliss. ↗

— Cesar Nascimento

#atheism #belief #rationalism #rationality #religion

There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies? ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#any #bottom #evidence #fairies #garden

I deeply believe in pluralism. I believe in the close proximity of multiple systems or agnostic systems. ↗

— Ben Nicholson

#believe #close #close proximity #deeply #i

Practically all the prominent leaders of thought in China today are openly agnostics and even atheists. ↗

— Hu Shih

#atheists #china #even #leaders #openly

Another important historical factor is the fact that this already very simple religion was further simplified and purified by the early philosophers of ancient China. Our first great philosopher was a founder of naturalism; and our second great philosopher was an agnostic. ↗

— Hu Shih

#already #ancient #another #china #early

My mother was very agnostic. She would never set foot in the synagogue, she couldn't be doing with it. ↗

— Janet Suzman

#doing #foot #mother #never #set

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

— Studs Terkel

#atheist #cowardly #happen #know #talking

Interviewer: "Didn't [Sagan] want to believe?" Druyan: "He didn't want to believe. He wanted to know. ↗

— Ann Druyan

#astronomy #atheism #carl-sagan #science #science

The position of the Atheist is a clear and reasonable one. I know nothing about ‘God’ and therefore I do not believe in Him or in it; what you tell me about your God is self‐contradictory, and therefore incredible. I do not deny ‘God,’ which is an unknown tongue to me; I do deny your God, who is an impossibility. I am without God. ↗

— Annie Wood Besant

#atheism #god #atheist