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Favorite Quotes

For the moment:

"When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier." — Neil deGrasse Tyson, Death By Black Hole

So far:

"Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures." - Han Suyin

"There are two kinds of people in the world, my friend. Those who have a loaded gun and those who dig. You dig!" - Blondie

"Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy. And in the final tolling it often turns out that the facts are more comforting than the fantasy." - Carl Sagan

"If we go back to the beginning, we shall find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that fancy, enthusiasm, or deceit adorned them; that weakness worships them; that credulity preserves them and that custom, respect and tyranny support them in order to make the blindness of men serve their own interests. If the ignorance of nature gave birth to gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them." Baron D’Holbach

"A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer." - Bruce Lee

"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge." - Stephen Hawking

"At every step one has to wrestle for truth; one has to surrender for it almost everything to which the heart, to which our love, our trust in life, cling otherwise. That requires greatness of soul: the service of truth is the hardest service. What does it mean, after all, to have integrity in matters of the spirit? That one is severe against one's heart...that one makes of every Yes and No a matter of conscience." - Friedrich Nietzsche in the Antichrist

"Your'e the retarded offspring of five monkies having butt sex with a fish squirrel. Congratulations." - Mr. Garrison on evolution

"Offense is what people take, when they can't take argument." - Richard Dawkins

"Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when one contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day." - Albert Einstein

"One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant." - John Locke

"If you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe; if you wish to be a devotee of truth, then inquire." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"Truth knows no parties." - Will Durant

"Don't hate the player, hate the game." - Satan

"If there was a god, I'd still have both nuts." - Lance Armstrong

"By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out." - Richard Dawkins

"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." - Carl Sagan

"There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance." - Ali Ibn Ali-Talib

"It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." - Carl Sagan

"The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason." - Thomas Paine

"If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank." - Woody Allen

"We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can." - Will Rogers

"We know exactly what it's like to be dead. Because it is exactly like the state we inhabited before we were born." - Carolyn Porco

"Now you know...and knowing is half the battle." - GI Joe

"That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet" - Emily Dickinson

"Eternity is a very long time, especially towards the end." - Woody Allen

"Life would be tragic if it weren't funny." - Stephen Hawking

"I love it when a plan comes together!" - Col. John "Hannibal" Smith

"We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers." — Carl Sagan

"Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is." - Isaac Asimov

"This is one of the great social functions of science—to free people from superstition." - Steven Weinberg

"Most people would die sooner than think -- in fact they do so." - Bertrand Russell

"Whatever their imagined source, the doctrines of modern religions are no more tenable than those which, for lack of adherents, were cast upon the scrap heap of mythology millennia ago." - Sam Harris

"I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of certainty about different things, but I'm not absolutely sure of anything..." - Richard Feynman

"To be clear-headed rather than confused; lucid rather than obscure; rational rather than otherwise; and to be neither more, nor less, sure of things than is justifiable by argument or evidence. That is worth trying for." - Sir Geoffrey Warnock

"When two men of science disagree, they do not invoke the secular arm; they wait for further evidence to decide the issue, because, as men of science, they know that neither is infallible. But when two theologians differ, since there is no criteria to which either can appeal, there is nothing for it but mutual hatred and an open or covert appeal to force." - Bertrand Russell, Can Religion Cure our Troubles, 1954.

"The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can." - Paul Kurtz

"Is [God] willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?" - Epicurus, as interpreted by David Hume

"Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because if there be one he must approve of the homage of reason more than that of blindfolded fear." - Thomas Jefferson

"Forget what you want to believe. Seek the truth and have the courage to believe that." - Leonard Pitts

"How come things that happen to stupid people keep happening to me!?" - Homer Simpson

"Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works." -Carl Sagan

"The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically . . . The complete education gives one not only power of concentration but worthy objectives upon which to concentrate." - Martin Luther King Jr.

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