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Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. - Author object (312)

Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived. - Author object (312)

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. - Author object (312)

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. - Author object (312)

Tell me why the stars do shine, Tell me why the ivy twines, Tell me what makes skies so blue, And I'll tell you why I love you. Nuclear fusion makes stars to shine, Tropisms make the ivy twine, Raleigh scattering make skies so blue, Testicular hormones are why I love you. - Author object (312)

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. - Author object (312)

They won't listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in their eyes, even if it were the truth. They don't want the truth; they want their traditions. - Author object (312)

Once, when a religionist denounced me in unmeasured terms, I sent him a card saying, "I am sure you believe that I will go to hell when I die, and that once there I will suffer all the pains and tortures the sadistic ingenuity of your deity can devise and that this torture will continue forever. Isn't that enough for you? Do you have to call me bad names in addition? - Author object (312)

Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly. - Author object (312)

Emotionally I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time. - Author object (312)

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. - Author object (312)

But life is glorious when it is happy; days are carefree when they are happy; the interplay of thought and imagination is far and superior to that of muscle and sinew. Let me tell you, if you don't know it from your own experience, that reading a good book, losing yourself in the interest of words and thoughts, is for some people (me, for instance) an incredible intensity of happiness. - Author object (312)

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but 'That's funny...' - Author object (312)

Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that <em>'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'</em> - Author object (312)

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. - Author object (312)

I write for the same reason I breathe ... because if I didn't, I would die. - Author object (312)

While he lives, he must think; while he thinks, he must dream. - Author object (312)

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. - Author object (312)

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge. - Author object (312)

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. - Author object (312)