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Modern science should indeed arouse in all of us a humility before the immensity...
– Martin Gardner
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Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does...
– Spinoza
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There won’t be any updates today; my 4th year thesis is due and I very much would like to graduate.
Back to regularly scheduled programming tomorrow!
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Man is manifestly not the measure of all things. This universe is shot through...
– Sam Harris
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Men’s greatest weapon in their quest for the subjugation of women is religion. Each religion is a different caliber of the same weapon, and all are lethal.
Jeff Whited
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Doubt everything or believe everything: these are two equally convenient...
– Henri Poincare
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Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.
– Arthur Schopenhauer
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It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, ‘Go away, I’m...
– R. Pirsig
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Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.
– Phillip K. Dick
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kim-jong-healthy asked: Love your blog. If I'm submitting too much stuff, just let me know and I'll dial it back. :)
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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is...
– Bertrand Russell
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Humans can be divided into two camps: those that fear god and those that fear those that fear god.
Jeff Whited
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The mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and...
– Wilfred Trotter
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black-waterpark asked: Love your blog! Do you know any other good atheist blogs?
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Man’s greatest asset is the unsettled mind.
– Isaac Asimov
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Playing God
Sold out of salvation, fabricate devotion.
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Sole Flyer
I am a bird that takes flight while others stay on the ground. Soaring higher in the endless search for truth and knowledge. I feel the wind on my wings… I look below and wonder why they do not yearn for this… Here, I can see the whole world! And go wherever I desire and discover! Perhaps they see me as a freak, the only one who can fly. Perhaps they just haven’t… found...
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I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest...
– Tolstoy