Lawrence M. Krauss Quotes

It's hard to say, 'I don't believe in God.' I would love to know if God exists. But it's a very difficult thing for me to believe.

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.

I never graduated to being an atheist. I only graduated to being an agnostic.

Most atheists bristle at the thought that atheism has anything to do with faith, but not Penn Jillette.

Atheism is the last word of theism.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.

I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty. Revere and respect Gaia. Have trust in Gaia. But not faith.

I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.

A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.

I'm an atheist.

You happen to be talking to an agnostic. You know what an agnostic is? A cowardly atheist.

I have to recognize that I am agnostic.

I don't think in terms of God.

Basically, it comes down to this: do you believe in God, or don't you believe in God.

To a certain extent I am taking a leap of faith. I'm adding up the evidence on either side, and I'm seeing the evidence of there not being a God is overwhelming compared to the evidence for there being a God.

I am surprised that anyone can profess to be an atheist.

Religion cannot and should not be replaced by atheism. Religion needs to go away and not be replaced by anything. Atheism is not a religion. It's the absence of religion, and that's a wonderful thing.

I can't prove that God doesn't exist, but I'd much rather live in a universe without one.

In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.

We are all atheists.

I became an atheist because, as a graduate student studying quantum physics, life seemed to be reducible to second-order differential equations. Mathematics, chemistry and physics had it all. And I didn't see any need to go beyond that.

A deist is someone who has not lived long enough to be an atheist.

If there were no God, there would be no Atheists.

I don't see any god up here.

For the record, I believe in God, but I do not believe in religion, period.