Any attempt at understanding humanity must include an explanation of the hold that supernatural belief continues to have on most of the human race.
Victor J. StengerIt 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.
Victor J. StengerFifteen years of skepticism has done more for me than 20 years of force-fed religion and 30 years of indifference in between.
Victor J. StengerThe so-called mysteries of quantum mechanics are in its philosophical interpretation, not in its mathematics.
Victor J. StengerPeople want to be at the center of the Universe...and they're going to flock to anybody who tells them that.
Victor J. StengerDefine self-awareness and tell me what it is about it that requires something more than a material explanation. I do not accept the burden of explaining all phenomena, real or imagined. If you think more than matter is required for this thing you call self-awareness, which you have not defined, then you have the burden of showing why.
Victor J. Stenger