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* "Some atheists are quite explicit that their atheism comes first. One of the most famous is Richard Lewontin, a professor of genetics, who said it wasn't science that compelled him to accept a materialistic explanation of the universe. It was an ''a priori'' materialism." - [[John Lennox]]<ref name="Lennox">[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOkd4LNe-_A "John Lennox - Same evidence, different conclusions"] (May 23, 2010).  YouTube video, 2:31, posted by ScottyVor.  Retrieved on February 19, 2015.  "Some atheists are quite explicit that their atheism comes first. One of the most famous is Richard Lewontin, a profesor of genetics, who said it wasn't science that compelled him to accept a materialistic explanation of the universe. It was an ''a priori'' materialism. You start with that materialism, and he said that materialism is absolute."  See [[John Lennox]].</ref>

* "Some atheists are quite explicit that their atheism comes first. One of the most famous is Richard Lewontin, a professor of genetics, who said it wasn't science that compelled him to accept a materialistic explanation of the universe. It was an ''a priori'' materialism." - [[John Lennox]]<ref name="Lennox">[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOkd4LNe-_A "John Lennox - Same evidence, different conclusions"] (May 23, 2010).  YouTube video, 2:31, posted by ScottyVor.  Retrieved on February 19, 2015.  "Some atheists are quite explicit that their atheism comes first. One of the most famous is Richard Lewontin, a profesor of genetics, who said it wasn't science that compelled him to accept a materialistic explanation of the universe. It was an ''a priori'' materialism. You start with that materialism, and he said that materialism is absolute."  See [[John Lennox]].</ref>

* "Worldwide, the march of religion can probably only be reversed by a renewed, self-aware secularism. Today, it appears exhausted and lacking in confidence... Secularism's greatest triumphs owe less to science than to popular social movements like nationalism, socialism and 1960s anarchist-liberalism. Ironically, secularism's [[decline of atheism|demographic deficit]] means that it will probably only succeed in the twenty-first century if it can create a secular form of 'religious' enthusiasm."<ref>Kaufmann, Eric (Autumn 2007).  [http://www.sneps.net/uploadsepk/JQR%20Demography.pdf "Shall the religious inherit the earth?"]  ''The Jewish Quarterly''.  Retrieved from Sneps.net on October 24, 2014.</ref> - Professor [[Eric Kaufmann]], Birbeck College, University of London, UK

* "Worldwide, the march of religion can probably only be reversed by a renewed, self-aware secularism. Today, it appears [[Decline of the atheist movement|exhausted and lacking in confidence]]... Secularism's greatest triumphs owe less to science than to popular social movements like nationalism, socialism and 1960s anarchist-liberalism. Ironically, secularism's [[decline of atheism|demographic deficit]] means that it will probably only succeed in the twenty-first century if it can create a secular form of 'religious' enthusiasm."<ref>Kaufmann, Eric (Autumn 2007).  [http://www.sneps.net/uploadsepk/JQR%20Demography.pdf "Shall the religious inherit the earth?"]  ''The Jewish Quarterly''.  Retrieved from Sneps.net on October 24, 2014.</ref> - Professor [[Eric Kaufmann]], Birbeck College, University of London, UK

* A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. - Sir [[Francis Bacon]] <ref name=essays>Bacon, Francis (1625). [http://archive.org/details/ldpd_7914458_000 ''The Essays or Counsels Civil and Moral of Francis Bacon''].  1884 edition, (London:  George Routledge and Sons), p. 106.  Retrieved from Internet Archive on February 19, 2015.</ref>

* A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. - Sir [[Francis Bacon]] <ref name=essays>Bacon, Francis (1625). [http://archive.org/details/ldpd_7914458_000 ''The Essays or Counsels Civil and Moral of Francis Bacon''].  1884 edition, (London:  George Routledge and Sons), p. 106.  Retrieved from Internet Archive on February 19, 2015.</ref>