4 Quotes by Gordon Stein

Svante Arrhenius, recipient of the Nobel Prize in chemistry (1903), was a declared atheist and the author of The Evolution of the Worlds and other works on cosmic physics.

The Age of Reason was responsible for making more people into infidels than any other book except the Bible.

Because of the confusion surrounding the term “agnosticism,” it would seem better to use the very similar term “rationalism” in its place when referring to the original Huxleyan meaning of the term. The use of “rationalist” for “agnostic” would also seem to be less ambiguous.

There are a large number of people who can and do manage to lead decent upright lives with no use for a belief in God as a guide. Atheists do not care whether others believe as they do. They do ask, however, for the right to believe as they wish.