"Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence."
Richard Dawkins
"It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence."
William James
"What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof."
Christopher Hitchens
"Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted."
Bertrand Russel
"A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence."
David Hume
"It is wrong always, everywhere and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence."
W. K. Clifford
