"It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly."
-Albert Einstein
"The whole thing is so patently infantile, so foreign to reality, that to anyone with a friendly attitude to humanity it is painful to think that the great majority of mortals will never be able to rise above this view of life."
-Sigmund Freud
"I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious ideas of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God."
-Thomas Edison
"I do not believe in a personal God."
-Stephen Hawking
"In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
"I believe in God, only I spell it Nature."
-Frank Lloyd Wright
"All thinking men are atheists."
-Ernest Hemingway
"Religion is a byproduct of fear"
-Arthur C. Clarke
"For much of human history, it may have been a necessary evil, but why was it more evil than necessary? Isn't killing people in the name of God a pretty good definition of insanity?"
-Arthur C. Clarke
"The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason."
-Benjamin Franklin
"By simple common sense I don't believe in God, in none."
-Charlie Chaplin