“Everyone must believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer”
Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American comedian
“Everyone must believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer”
Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American comedian
Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction …
Source: The Roving Mind (1983), p. 43
Context: Don't you believe in flying saucers, they ask me? Don't you believe in telepathy? — in ancient astronauts? — in the Bermuda triangle? — in life after death?
No, I reply. No, no, no, no, and again no.
One person recently, goaded into desperation by the litany of unrelieved negation, burst out "Don't you believe in anything?"
"Yes", I said. "I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I'll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it. The wilder and more ridiculous something is, however, the firmer and more solid the evidence will have to be."
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Remark to scientist Herman Francis Mark
1940s, Only Then Shall We Find Courage (1946)
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969) American general and politician, 34th president of the United States (in office from 1953 to 1961)
Remarks to the Leaders of the United Defense Fund (April 29, 1954). Source: Eisenhower Presidential Library. Archived https://web.archive.org/web/20210125121539/https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/eisenhowers/quotes from the original https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/eisenhowers/quotes on January 25, 2021. <br class="br">1950s
Diana, Princess of Wales (1961–1997) First wife of Charles, Prince of Wales
Interview with Martin Bashir on BBC Panorama (20 November 1995)
Aron Ra (1962) Aron Ra is an atheist activist and the host of the Ra-Men Podcast
Patheos, Anti-theist Answers to Christian Questions http://www.patheos.com/blogs/reasonadvocates/2015/11/22/anti-theist-answers-to-christian-questions/ (November 22, 2015)
“Come on girls! Do you believe in love? Cause I got something to say about it.”
Madonna (1958) American singer, songwriter, and actress
(Lyric From Express Yourself).
Frederick II of Prussia (1712–1786) king of Prussia
1777; quoted by Bert L. Vallée, Alcohol in the Western World, Scientific American, Vol. 278, No. 6 (June), 1998, pp. 80-85