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“Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.”
― Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
― Isaac Asimov

“I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm – not all – that religion used to fill.”
― Bill Gates

“We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.”
― Stephen Hawking

“An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”
― Niels Bohr

“The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson

“A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“The windmill gives you society with the feudal lord; the steam mill, society with the industrial capitalist”
― Karl Marx, The Poverty of Philosophy

“if you look at humanity's per-capita energy use today, it's as thought each human being has twenty-three servants for him or her, every hour of every day”
― leif wenar, Blood Oil: Tyrants, Violence, and the Rules that Run the World

“Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.”
― Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species

“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.”
― Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man

“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens

“Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on -- because they're dysfunctional to the institutions.”
― Noam Chomsky

“I was never aware of any other option but to question everything.”
― Noam Chomsky

“It's not radical Islam that worries the US -- it's independence”
― Noam Chomsky

“See, people with power understand exactly one thing: violence.”
― Noam Chomsky

“It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude