It surely is remarkable that anyone should believe a story like the one effectively invented by the 9/11 Truth movement.
David Aaronovich

The more fantastic an ideology or theology, the more fanatic its adherents.
Edward Abbey

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
Dante Alighieri

Heaven wheels above you displaying to you her eternal glories and still your eyes are on the ground.
Dante Alighieri

Never argue with an idiot. The best outcome you can hope for is that you won an argument with an idiot.
Anonymous

Some people are like Slinkies. Not really good for anything but they bring a smile to your face when pushed down the stairs.
Anonymous

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.
Aristotle

If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God, and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul.
Isaac Asimov

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
Isaac Asimov

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

A scientist seeks the truth, wherever that may lead. A believer already knows the truth, and cannot be swayed no matter how compelling the evidence.
Author Unknown

Bozone (n.): The substance surrounding people obsessed with a mistaken idea that stops reality from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.
Author Unknown

Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.
Charles Babbage

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

Penicillin cures pneumonia even if you're in a coma, but alternative medicine only seems to work when you are awake
R. Barker Bausell

A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition.
José Bergamín

If you don’t think too good, don’t think too much.
Yogi Berra

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

Ridicule may lawfully be employed where reason has no hope of success.
Ed Brayton

That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.
Jacob Bronowski

Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.
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

To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, but to imagine your facts is another
John Burroughs

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
Sir Richard Francis Burton

That which can't be considered scientific data can't be asserted as proof. This is a common failing in pseudo-scientific writings - an appeal to some other form of proof or 'other ways of knowing'.
Irvin Bussel

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 Hubbell 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.
Winston Churchill

You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Winston Churchill

When you have no basis of argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)

For, to speak truly, that superstition has extended itself through all nations, and has oppressed the intellectual energies of all men, and has betrayed them into endless imbecilities.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)

It is wrong always, everywhere and for everyone to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
W.K. Clifford

A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that he is going to be a beginner all his life.
Robin G. Collingwood

Learning without thinking is useless. Thinking without learning is dangerous.
Confucius

Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.
Michael Crichton

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