Wolfgang Paul Quotes

There is no God and we are his prophets.

If it were proven that there is no God there would be no religion. ...But also if it were proven that there is a God, there would be no religion.

The proofs that God does not exist are very strong, but in lots of people they are not as strong as the feeling that He does.

We cannot, of course, disprove God, just as we can't disprove Thor, fairies, leprechauns and the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

When I coined the term “the God Particle” for the Higgs Boson, I inadvertently offended two group of people: Those who believe in God and those who don’t believe in God.

I deny the very existence of that Almighty Supreme Being.

I still can't decide which is silliest; a person believing in a God who 'isn't there,' or a person offended by a God whom he doesn't believe exists.

If there were no God, he would have to be invented.

If there is a god, the only genuine friend he has is an atheist. He does not blame him for anything.

[I'm] almost positive there is no God.

Atheists don't hate fairies, leprechauns, or unicorns because they don't exist. It is impossible to hate something that doesn't exist. Atheists - like the painting experts hated the painter - hate God because He does exist.

For me, the existence of nonexistence of God is a nonissue.

Atheists who keep asking for evidence of God's existence are like a fish in the ocean wanting evidence of water.

In this sense, science, as physicist Steven Weinberg has emphasized, does not make it impossible to believe in God, but rather makes it possible to not believe in God.

What do I believe? I believe in God, if he exists.

Question boldly even the existence of God.

Even David Hume, one of history most famous skeptics, said it's just barely possible that God exists.

"You don't believe in God," I said to Stein. "God is a word banging around in the human nervous system. He exists about as much as Santa Claus." "Santa Claus has had a tremendous influence, exist or not." "For children." "Lots of saints have died for God with a courage that's hardly childish." "That's part of the horror. It's all a fantasy. It's all for nothing."

Thus, though I dislike to differ with such a great man, Voltaire was simply ludicrous when he said that if god did not exist it would be necessary to invent him. The human invention of god is the problem to begin with.

If people think God is interesting, the onus is on them to show that there is anything there to talk about. Otherwise they should just shut up about it.

I do not believe in God. It seems to me that theists of all kinds have very largely failed to make their concept of a deity intelligible; and to the extent that they have made it intelligible, they have given us no reason to think that anything answers to it.

An atheist, like a Christian, holds that we can know whether or not there is a God. The Christian holds that we can know there is a God; the atheist, that we can know there is not. The Agnostic suspends judgment, saying that there are not sufficient grounds either for affirmation or for denial. At the same time, an Agnostic may hold that the existence of God, though not impossible, is very improbable; he may even hold it so improbable that it is not worth considering in practice. In that case, he is not far removed from atheism.

I knew I couldn't believe in God, because I was fundamentally Hellenic in my outlook.

I am an agnostic as to the question of God.

How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?