There is no question but that nominally religious scientists like Francis Collins and Kenneth R. Miller are doing lasting harm to our… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The search for truth is a cooperative, unending endeavor. We can, and should, engage in it to the extent we can and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
But there are times when men have serious thoughts, and it is at such times, when they begin to think, that they… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
A miracle entails a degree of irrationality-not because it shocks reason, but because it makes no appeal to it. — Emmanuel Levinas Copy Share Image
The point is that religion puts a value on irrationality, which makes it the perfect tool for promoting irrational beliefs like misogyny.… — Amanda Marcotte Copy Share Image
The experience of the irrationality of the world has been the driving force of all religious revolution. — Max Weber Copy Share Image
Power doesn't corrupt. It's neutral. Someone always wants to corrupt power. It's the way a shotgun is not a deadly weapon until… — Steve Ditko Copy Share Image
The idea of Jewish settlements under Palestinian sovereignty, as was suggested by someone in the Prime Minister's office, is very dangerous and… — Naftali Bennett Copy Share Image
I suppose if you look back to your early childhood you accept everything people tell you, and that includes a heavy dose… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Reason is the shepherd trying to corral life's vast flock of wild irrationalities. — Paul Eldridge Copy Share Image
What a mathematical proof actually does is show that certain conclusions, such as the irrationality of , follow from certain premises, such… — Timothy Gowers Copy Share Image
There is not a more disgusting spectacle under the sun than our subserviency to British criticism. It is disgusting, first, because it… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“There are three things admiration affirms; the lack of autonomy, the senility of the mind, and the strength of desperation. Irrationality and… — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Because history is only an aggregate of personal hostilities, personal prejudices, personal blindness and irrationality, there are times when we have to… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“Sanity is not about confrontation. It's about filtering. Having a stable and happy life is about saying "no" to crazy people, not… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
“Felix had gone to live in a lotus land of his imagination. Where what is desired is dreamed of as already happened,… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
When you find yourself reluctant to sit on a chair because it had unexpectedly collapsed in the past you might shake your… — Nomy Arpaly Copy Share Image
If the world is irrational, we can never know it -- either it or its irrationality. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Nationalism does nothing but teach you to hate people you never met, and to take pride in accomplishments you had no part… — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
Our world is integrated to an unprecedented degree, while the global political awakening is injecting into interstate relations an intense amount of… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Now I existed solely thanks to the quantum paradox, my brain a collection of qubits in quantum superposition, encoding truths and memories,… — Robin Wasserman Copy Share Image
The northern ocean is beautiful, ... and beautiful the delicate intricacy of the snowflake before it melts and perishes, but such beauties… — John Lighton Synge Copy Share Image
