34 Quotes by Victor J. Stenger

In fact, current cosmological observations indicate that the average density of matter and energy in the universe is equal, within measurement errors, to the critical density for which the total energy of the universe was exactly zero at the beginning.

The so-called mysteries of quantum mechanics are in its philosophical interpretation, not in its mathematics.

Debating is not an honest intellectual exercise. It’s like a trial in which the goal is not to get to the truth but to win.

Unlike those theists who at least pay lip service to science and scientific method, Johnson is out to convict science of fraud in the court of public opinion.

In a poll taken in 1998, only 7 percent of the members of the US National Academy of Sciences, the elite of American scientists, said they believed in a personal god.

The universe is not fine-tuned to us; we are fine-tuned to our particular universe.

It was not that I thought I was smarter. I had simply explored science and found what seemed to me a far more powerful authority. And, I did not steal or murder because I thought they were wrong, not because I feared damnation.