Thomas A. Edison
- My mind is incapable of conceiving such a thing as a soul. I may be in error,
and man may have a soul; but I simply do not believe it. [Thomas Edison,
Do We Live Again?]
- All Bibles are man-made. [Thomas Edison]
- So far as religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake... Religion is
all bunk. [Thomas Edison]
- I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious theories of
heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God. [Thomas
Alva Edison, Columbian Magazine]
- I do not believe that any type of religion should ever be introduced into the
public schools of the United States. [Thomas Edison]
- To those seaching for truth - not the truth of dogma and darkness but the truth
brought by reason, search, examination, and inquiry, discipline is required. For
faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith
in fiction is a damnable false hope. [Thomas Edison]
- I cannot believe in the immortality of the soul... No, all this talk of an existence
beyond the grave is wrong. It is born of our tenacity of life - our desire to go
on living - our dread of coming to an end. [Thomas Edison, quoted
in 2000 Years of Disbelief, Famous People with the Courage to Doubt, by James A. Haught, Prometheus Books, 1996]
- The great trouble is that the preachers get the children from six to seven years
of age and then it is almost impossible to do anything with them. [Thomas
Edison, quoted by Joseph Lewis from a personal conversation; source: Cliff Walker's
Positive
Atheism's Big List of Quotations]
- What fools. [Thomas Edison, commenting on he spectacle of hundreds
of thousands making a pilgrimage to the grave of an obscure priest in Massachusetts,
in the hope of effecting miraculous cures, quoted by Joseph Lewis from a personal
conversation; source: Cliff Walker's Positive Atheism's Big List of Quotations]
- Incurably religious, that is the best way to describe the mental condition of
so many people. [Thomas Edison, quoted by Joseph Lewis from a personal
conversation; source: Cliff Walker's Positive Atheism's Big List of Quotations]
- It is the best book ever written on the subject. There is nothing like it! [Thomas Edison on Thomas Paine's The Age of Reason, quoted by Joseph
Lewis from a personal conversation; source: Cliff Walker's Positive Atheism's Big List of Quotation]
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