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“The theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats as the other advances.”
― The Existence Of God
― The Existence Of God
“A law of nature is not a formula drawn up by a legislator, but a mere summary of the observed facts — a 'bundle of facts.' Things do not act in a particular way because there is a law, but we state the 'law' because they act in that way.”
― The Existence Of God
― The Existence Of God
“The sentiments attributed to Christ are in the Old Testament. They were familiar in the Jewish schools and to all the Pharisees, long before the time of Christ, as they were familiar in all the civilizations of the earth — Egyptian, Babylonian, and Persian, Greek, and Hindu.”
― The Sources of the Morality of the Gospels
― The Sources of the Morality of the Gospels
“The absence of theistic belief...
{Defining the word 'atheism'}”
― A Rationalist Encyclopedia: a Book of Reference on Religion Philosophy Ethics and Science
{Defining the word 'atheism'}”
― A Rationalist Encyclopedia: a Book of Reference on Religion Philosophy Ethics and Science
“An idea or institution may arise for one reason and be maintained for quite a different reason.”
― The Psychology of Religion
― The Psychology of Religion
“In his numerous historical and Scriptural works Bauer rejects all supernatural religion, and represents Christianity as a natural product of the mingling of the Stoic and Alexandrian philosophies...”
― A Biographical Dictionary of Modern Rationalists
― A Biographical Dictionary of Modern Rationalists
“{McCabe on the influential scientist Luther Burbank}
His magnificent work, which added an incalculable sum to the wealth of America and left him a comparatively poor man, is well known. His own simple account of his discoveries runs to 12 volumes and is incomplete. I was one of the few men whom he admitted to his house in Santa Rosa in the few months before he died and I found him advanced even beyond the vague Emersonian theism of his earlier years. He agreed to see me, he said, though he was tired and ill, because of his admiration of my work as a rationalist. He had just raised a storm by a public declaration that he did not believe in a future life, and his biographer Wilbur Hale repeats this.”
― A Biographical Dictionary of Ancient Medieval and Modern Freethinkers
His magnificent work, which added an incalculable sum to the wealth of America and left him a comparatively poor man, is well known. His own simple account of his discoveries runs to 12 volumes and is incomplete. I was one of the few men whom he admitted to his house in Santa Rosa in the few months before he died and I found him advanced even beyond the vague Emersonian theism of his earlier years. He agreed to see me, he said, though he was tired and ill, because of his admiration of my work as a rationalist. He had just raised a storm by a public declaration that he did not believe in a future life, and his biographer Wilbur Hale repeats this.”
― A Biographical Dictionary of Ancient Medieval and Modern Freethinkers
