Victor J. Stenger quotes

Science flies men to the moon, religion flies men into buildings. (Victor J. Stenger)
Selling eternal life is an unbeatable business, with no customers ever asking for their money back after the goods are not delivered.
Victor J. Stenger
The problem is that people think faith is something to be admired. In fact, faith means you believe in something for which you have no evidence.
Victor J. Stenger
The so-called mysteries of quantum mechanics are in its philosophical interpretation, not in its mathematics.
Victor J. Stenger
Observations in cosmology look just as they can be expected to look if there is no God.
Victor J. Stenger
Infinity...is used in physics simply as a shorthand for "a very big number.”.
Victor J. Stenger
The transition of nothing-to-something is a natural one, not requiring any agent.
Victor J. Stenger
The fact that we have something is just what we would expect if there is no God.
Victor J. Stenger
Science is not going to change its commitment to the truth. We can only hope religion changes its commitment to nonsense.
Victor J. Stenger
[T]he most fundamental laws of physics are not restrictions on the behaviour of matter. Rather, they are restrictions on the way physicists may describe that behaviour.
Victor J. Stenger
The God of the gaps argument for God fails when a plausible scientific account for a gap in current knowledge can be given. I do not dispute that the exact nature of the origin of the universe remains a gap in scientific knowledge. But I deny that we are bereft of any conceivable way to account for that origin scientifically. (Victor J. Stenger)
The existence of matter and energy in the universe did not require the violation of energy conservation at the assumed creation. In fact, the data strongly support the hypothesis that no such miracle occurred. If we regard such a miracle as predicted by the creator hypothesis, then the prediction is not confirmed.
Victor J. Stenger
The universe is not fine-tuned to us; we are fine-tuned to our particular universe.
Victor J. Stenger