Windsor Humanist Society - Activities of Interest to Humanists

"Faith is believing something you know ain't true."
Mark Twain

"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction."
Blaise Pascal

"The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority."
Thomas H. Huxley

"Everything, however men may deem it assured and evident, proves, when it is brought under discussion to be no less doubtful than are extravagant and absurd beliefs."
Giordano Bruno

"Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution."
Theodosius Dobzhansky

"In practice, no civilized person uses Scripture as ultimate authority for moral reasoning."
Richard Dawkins

"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science."
Charles Darwin

"Religion is the fashionable substitute for thinking."
Oscar Wilde

"The more that the fruits of knowledge become accessible to man, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief."
Sigmund Freud

"All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few."
Stendhal

"The believer is happy, the doubter is wise."
Hungarian Proverb

"Millions long for immorality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon."
Susan Ertz

"As we rely more on reason, faith disappears."
Anonymous

"If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion."
Edmond de Goncourt

"People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them."
Dave Barry

"Religion is just mind control."
George Carlin