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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
There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance
Hippocrates
That which can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence
Christopher Hitchens
That which can be destroyed by the truth, should be.
P. C. Hodgell
The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not
Eric Hoffer
You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
Abbie Hoffman
The mind of the bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
For nothing burns with such amazing speed, As the dry sticks of a religious creed
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr
Writing science fiction for a penny a word is no way to make a living. If you really want to make a million, the quickest way is to start your own religion.
L. Ron Hubbard
No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish.
David Hume
If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames: For it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.
David Hume
Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.
Thomas Henry Huxley
The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
Thomas Henry Huxley
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Aldous Huxley
The only good that I can see in the demonstration of the truth of "Spiritualism" is to furnish an additional argument against suicide. Better live a crossing-sweeper than die and be made to talk twaddle by a "medium" hired at a guinea a séance.
Aldous Huxley
You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religions. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, intelligent enough.
Aldous Huxley
A man should never put on his best trousers when he goes out to battle for freedom and truth.
Henrik Ibsen
No man with any sense of humour ever founded a religion.
Robert Ingersoll
Our ignorance is God; what we know is science.
Robert Ingersoll
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
Thomas Jefferson
Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible positions.
Thomas Jefferson
Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
Thomas Jefferson
In every country and in every age the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot.
Thomas Jefferson
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Thomas Jefferson
There is nothing more unequal, than the equal treatment of unequal people.
Thomas Jefferson
Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.
Thomas Jefferson
When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?
John Maynard Keynes
The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.
John Maynard Keynes
It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.
John Maynard Keynes
Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.
John Maynard Keynes
Men talk of heaven, - there is no heaven but here;
Men talk of hell, - there is no hell but here;
Men of hereafters talk, and future lives, -
O love, there is no other life - but here.
Omar Khayyám
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.
Martin Luther King Jr
The time is always right to do what is right
Martin Luther King Jr
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity
Martin Luther King Jr
He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.
Martin Luther King Jr
Peace is more precious than diamonds or silver or gold
Martin Luther King Jr (Nobel Acceptance Speech, 1963)
Scientology is both immoral and socially obnoxious...It is corrupt, sinister and dangerous. It is corrupt because it is based on lies and deceit
Justice Latey
Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see
John Lennon
Every sect as far as reason will help them, gladly use it; when it fails them, they cry out it is a matter of faith, and beyond reason.
John Locke
The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
John Locke
It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.
Konrad Lorenz
Thinkers aspired to know, or dared to doubt, where bigots had been content to wonder and to believe
Lord Macaulay
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery. None but ourselves can free our minds.
Bob Marley
I count religion as but a childish toy, and hold that there is no sin but ignorance.
Christopher Marlowe
Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for - because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.
Peter Marshall
Religion is the sigh of the suppressed creature, the feelings of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of unspiritual conditions. It is the opium of the people.
Karl Marx
But what a fool believes he sees, no wise man has the power to reason away
McDonald/Loggins
