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Some people are like Slinkies. Not really good for anything but they bring a smile to your face when pushed down the stairs.
Anonymous
The more fantastic an ideology or theology, the more fanatic its adherents
Edward Abbey
The correct scientific response to something that is not understood must always be to look harder for the explanation, not give up and assume a supernatural cause
David Attenborough
Whoever is still seeking for miracles so that he may believe is himself a wonder, who does not believe while the world around him does
Saint Augustine
The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.
Francis Bacon
There's a sucker born every minute
Joseph Bessimer (not Phineas T Barnum)
Heathen, n: A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel.
Ambrose Bierce
Truth exists. Only lies are invented.
Georges Braque
This is the lesson of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.
Jacob Bronowski
Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.
Lenny Bruce
All it takes for evil to prosper is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself
Sir Richard Francis Burton
The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
Samuel Butler
There are causes worth dying for but none worth killing for
Albert Camus
Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Thomas Carlyle
The better a man knows the truth, the less he is likely to condemn.
Sebastian Castellio
I have carefully examined what a heretic means, and I cannot make it mean more than this: a heretic is a man with whom you disagree.
Sebastian Castellio
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
Superintendent Chalmers (The Simpsons)
Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.
G. K. Chesterton
The job of the evangelist is never easy.
Ben Chifley (Prime Minister of Australia, 1945-49)
Never give in - never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
Sir Winston Churchill
When you have no basis of argument, abuse the plaintiff
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
I suffered from chronic hypochondria for years. Eventually I went to a naturopath and was cured with a course of broad-spectrum placebos
M. Cullen
I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale.
Marie Curie
We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. It must be done for itself, for the beauty of science, and then there is always the chance that a scientific discovery may become like the radium a benefit for humanity.
Marie Curie
Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom.
No, not Thomas Jefferson - it was John Philpot Curran
The mob has no ruler more potent than superstition
Quintus Curtius Rufus
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
Dalai Lama
Faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.
Richard Dawkins
I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
Richard Dawkins
Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to me: 'My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.' This stranger is a theologian.
Denis Diderot
Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
Denis Diderot
A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence skepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone
Denis Diderot
Skepticism is the first step toward truth
Denis Diderot
I cannot conceive of a god who rewards and punishes his creatures or has a will of the kind we experience in ourselves. Neither can I nor would I want to conceive of an individual that survives his physical death; let feeble souls, from fear or absurd egotism, cherish such thoughts. I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the existing world, together with the devoted striving to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the Reason that manifests itself in Nature.
Albert Einstein
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
Albert Einstein
The religions we call false were once true.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes
James Feibleman
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Anatole France
So you're offended. So fucking what?
Stephen Fry (talking about religious objections to free speech)
In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another.
J. William Fullbright
I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures but with experiments and demonstrations.
Galileo Galilei
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
Galileo Galilei
No theory is too false, no fable so absurd, no superstition too degrading for acceptance when it has become imbedded in common belief. Men will submit themselves to torture and to death, mothers will immolate their children, all at the bidding of beliefs they thus accept.
Henry George (1839 - 1897)
Doubt grows with knowledge.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.
Stephen Jay Gould
In dark ages people are best guided by religion, as in a pitch-black night a blind man is the best guide; he knows the roads and paths better than a man who can see. When daylight comes, however, it is foolish to use blind, old men as guides.
Heinrich Heine
Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel
