Thomas Edison: Quotes about God

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“Nature is what we know. We do not know the gods of religions. And nature is not kind, or merciful, or loving. If God made me — the fabled God of the three qualities of which I spoke: mercy, kindness, love — He also made the fish I catch and eat. And where do His mercy, kindness, and love for that fish come in? No; nature made us — nature did it all — not the gods of the religions”

Thomas Edison

Thomas Edison ""No Immortality of the Soul" says Thomas A. Edison. In Fact, He Doesn't Believe There Is a Soul — Human Beings Only an Aggregate of Cells and the Brain Only a Wonderful Machine, Says Wizard of Electricity". New York Times. October 2, 1910
1910s

“I am much less interested in what is called God's word than in God's deeds. All bibles are man-made.”

Thomas Edison

John Burroughs, in "Religious Contrasts : Letters of Pantheist and a Churchman", in The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 128, No. 4 (October 1921), p. 520.
Misattributed

“I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious ideas of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God.”

Thomas Edison

As quoted in Jesus : Myth Or Reality? (2006) by Ian Curtis, p. 289.
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“I do not believe in the God of the theologians; but that there is a Supreme Intelligence I do not doubt”

Thomas Edison

The Freethinker (1970), G.W. Foote & Company, Volume 90, p. 147.
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