Naturalism Quotes

As students grow more and more accustomed to assuming materialism and naturalism in their academic w...

Materialism sets us free from sin-by proving that there is no such thing as sin. There's just antiso...

We ought to regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its antecedent state and as th...

To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they hav...

Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because th...

There is no indisputable proof for the big bang," said Hollus. "And there is none for evolution. And...

It is either coincidence piled on top of coincidence," said Hollus, "or it is deliberate design.

No one disputes that seeming order can come out of the application of simple rules. But who wrote th...

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean.

The injured captain, lying in the bow, was at this time buried in that profound dejection and indiff...

Nevertheless, he had, on a certain star-lit evening, said wonderingly and quite reverently: "Deh moo...

But as the girl timidly accosted him, he gave a convulsive movement and saved hisrespectability by a...

When it occurs to a man that nature does not regard him as important, and that she feels she would n...

The universe, the whole mass of things that are, is corporeal, that is to say, body, and hath the di...

Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science, by rendering them my supreme delight. But t...

I believe the defenders of intelligent design deserve our gratitude for challenging a scientific wor...

Both theism and evolutionary naturalism are attempts to understand ourselves from the outside

I depart as air, I shake my white locks at the runway sun, I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow fro...

I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise,Regardless of others, ever regardful of ot...

Naturalism is the view that the physical world is a self-contained system that works by blind, unbro...

The very comprehensibility of the world points to an intelligence behind the world. Indeed, science ...

I profess to learn and to teach anatomy not from books but from dissections, not from the tenets of ...

The more a man is imbued with the ordered regularity of all events the firmer becomes his conviction...

We must trust to nothing but facts: These are presented to us by Nature, and cannot deceive. We ough...

About once or twice every month I engage in public debates with those whose pressing need it is to w...

A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature; and because firm and unalterable experience has esta...

String theory is an attempt at a deeper description of nature by thinking of an elementary particle ...

Science is simply the classification of the common knowledge of the common people. It is bringing to...

The embryological record is almost always abbreviated in accordance with the tendency of nature (to ...

I believe in you and me. I'm like Albert Schweitzer and Bertrand Russell and Albert Einstein in that...

Will be but corpses dressed in frocks, who cannot speak to birds or rocks.

But if you do know what is taught by plants and weather, you are in on the gossip and can feel truly...

My method is atheism. I find the atheistic outlook provides a favourable background for cosmopolitan...

My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.

I am, indeed, an absolute materialist so far as actual belief goes; with not a shred of credence in ...

Why is it that showers and even storms seem to come by chance, so that many people think it quite na...

For if a man by magical arts and sacrifices will bring down the moon, and darken the sun, and induce...

How came the bodies of animals to be contrived with so much art, and for what ends were their severa...

Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same always and every where, could produce no v...

A physicist that I know commented that many other scientific disciplines, such as geology, anthropol...

Yes, I'm a materialist. I'm willing to be shown wrong, but that has not happened — yet. And I admit ...

This beach I voyage on leads me through the earth's immortal consistencies. Each form I encounter ob...

Another glorious Sierra day in which one seems to be dissolved and absorbed and sent pulsing onward ...

All my moral and intellectual being is penetrated by an invincible conviction that whatever falls un...

The deep study of nature is the most fruitful source of mathematical discoveries. By offering to res...

There is no separate supernatural realm: all phenomena are part of one natural process of evolution.

The greatest single achievement of nature to date was surely the invention of the molecule DNA.

Since science is essentially objective, involving the study of how things actually are, "materialism...

Even connoisseurship can have politics, Slow Food wagers, since an eater in closer touch with his se...

Science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is ...

We are children of chaos, and the deep structure of change is decay. At root, there is only corrupti...