Religious faith is the one species of human ignorance that will not admit of even the possibility of correction.[2]

We must find our way to a time when faith, without evidence, disgraces anyone who would claim it.[2]

The idea, therefore, that religious faith is somehow a sacred human convention-distinguished, as it is, both by the extravagance of its claims and by the pauci…

Faith is rather like a rhinoceros, in fact: it won't do much in the way of real work for you, and yet at close quarters it will make spectacular claims upon yo…

(on the perceived need for cautious political development): 'We are the High Chiefs of these islands. We are the leaders of the people. On us is the duty of po…

Every one, though born of God in an instant, yet undoubtedly grows by slow degrees.

To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.