2481 "Fear was the first thing on earth to make gods." [Lucretius (96?-55 B.C.)]

3544 "To believe that consciousness can survive the wreck of the brain is like believing that 70 mph can survive the wreck of the car." [Frank Zindler]

185 "Money cannot buy happiness, but it lets you be unhappy in nice places."

3434 "Some persons are remembered solely for their virtues and others solely for their faults. This is why we have a Jesus and a Judas." [Lemuel K. Washburn, _Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays_, 1911]

3609 "Ineptocracy (in-ep-toc'-ra-cy) - a system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers."

2888 "If you get caught at some crucial point and somebody tells you that your doctrine doesn't make sense--you're ready for him. You tell him there's something above sense. That here he must not try to think, he must _feel_. He must _believe_. Suspend reason and you can play it deuces wild." [Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead]

2587 "Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurences it cannot understand." [Karl Marx]

2917 "I think the sky is blue because it's a shift from black through purple to blue, and it has to do with where the light is. You know, the farther we get into darkness, and there's a shifting of color of light into the blueness, and I think as you go farther and farther away from the reflected light we have from the sun or the light that's bouncing off this earth, uh, the darker it gets ... I think if you look at the color scale, you start at black, move it through purple, move it on out, it's the shifting of color. We mentioned before about the stars singing, and that's one of the effects of the shifting of colors." [Pat Robertson, on a telecast of the 700 Club]

1952 "I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires." [Susan B. Anthony]

2616 "Men become civilized not in proportion to their willingness to believe but in proportion to their readiness to doubt." [H. L. Menchen]

2498 "[I]n a like manner we must endure the authority of the prince. If he misuse or abuse his authority, we are not to entertain a grudge, seek revenge or punishment. Obedience is to be rendered for God's sake, for the ruler is God's representative. However they may tax or exact, we must obey and endure patiently." [Martin Luther, "Tribute to Caesar" sermon, from _The Political Theories of Martin Luther_, Luther Hess Waring (New York, Putnam's, 1910) p. 104]

3609 "Ineptocracy (in-ep-toc'-ra-cy) - a system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers."

3043 "Seventy-two American winners of the Nobel Prize in science urged the Supreme Court yesterday to strike down a Louisiana law requiring public schools teaching evolution to also teach creationism. ...Creation-science is linked closely to a literal interpretation of the biblical book of Genesis, teaching that Earth and most of its life forms came into existence suddenly about 6000 years ago. ...The case before the high court is Edwards v. Aguillard,85-1513." [San Francisco Chronicle, 19 August 1986 (AP)]

124 "The Greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism." -- Sir William Osler

1429 "Is it necessary to invoke the hand of the Almighty in something like understanding cell division or understanding an internal combustion engine? ... If not, why is it necessary in understanding the history of life?" Eugenie Scott in "Resolved: That evolutionists should acknowledge creation" _Firing Line_, 4 December 1997, p. 27.

3336 "Don't you know there ain't no devil, it's just god when he's drunk." [Tom Waits]

2441 "Hence from all we have hitherto said, it is clear beloved Catholics that we cannot approve the opinions which some [Protestants, Jews, and other heretics] comprise under the head of Americanism [freedom]." [Pope Leo XIII, "Great Encyclical Letters",252]

1376 "Roughly, science is what we know and philosophy is what we don't know." Bertrand Russell, The Quotable Bertrand Russell (ed. Lee Eisler, Buffalo, NY: Prometheus, 1993), p. 219.

2431 "Praying is like a rocking chair-- it'll give you something to do, but it won't get you anywhere. [Gypsy Rose Lee]

3343 "The man who accepts the faith of Calvin is miserable in proportion to the extent he carries it out." [Lemuel K. Washburn, _Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays_]