The 1933 World's Fair celebrated a century of progress, but the foundations of that progress were freethinking and religious skepticism.

It would seem to the less credulous that, if God were really opposed to the new calendar, He might have taken more direct action against it.

That "artificial" stuff humans created to make life longer and better for women and men is all that stands against devastation by overpopulation.

"Neither in my private life nor in my writings, have I ever made a secret of being an out-and-out unbeliever."

“Faith is in its nature unchangeable, stationary; Science is in its nature progressive; and eventually a divergence between them must take place.”

Said Watson, "Occasionally, I meet them [strongly religious scientists] and I'm a bit embarrassed because I can't believe that anyone accepts truth by revelation."

Although the playwrights mock the William Jennings Bryan character, they are really focused on defending freedom of thought in a time of anti-communist hysteria.

Ben Stein should have spent at least a few of this film’s 90 minutes giving us an idea of what the Intelligent Design theory actually explains. Intelligent Design is a science stopper!

Burroughs wrote, "Of the hereafter I have no conception. This life is enough for me" and "Our civilization is not founded upon Christianity; it is founded upon reason and science."

Anesthesia was denounced from pulpits across the land as impious and contrary to Holy Writ - until Queen Victoria needed to use it.