34 Quotes by Victor J. Stenger

The belief in supernatural forces remains to this day a yoke on the neck of humanity, but at least Thales made it possible, for those of us who wish it, to be free of that yoke.

Those who use the Bible as a reference for moral behavior are simply cherry-picking those teachings, such as the Golden Rule, that they have independently decided are moral for other reasons, while ignoring those teachings with which they disagree.

Is there a place in a church where you leave your brains when you enter?

While science continually uncovers new mysteries, it has removed much of what was once regarded as deeply mysterious. Although we certainly do not know the exact nature of every component of the universe, the basic principles of physics seem to apply out to the farthest horizon visible to us today.

The problem is that people think faith is something to be admired. In fact, faith means you believe in something for which you have no evidence.

Saying the universe is eternal simply is saying that it has no beginning or end, not that it had a beginning an infinite time ago.

Thought, without the data on which to structure that thought, leads nowhere.

Any attempt at understanding humanity must include an explanation of the hold that supernatural belief continues to have on most of the human race.

We have yet to encounter an observable astronomical phenomenon that require a supernatural element to be added to a model in order to describe the even... Observations in cosmology look just as they can be expected to look if there is no God.