January 2012
5 posts
“I try not to think with my gut. If I’m serious about understanding the world,...”
– Carl Sagan
(via nonplussedbyreligion)
“When they say “I’ll pray for you”, give that wonderful reply: “I’ll think for...”
– Richard Dawkins (via travors)
December 2011
4 posts
“I’ll tell you what you did with Atheists for about 1500 years. You outlawed them...”
– Madalyn Murray O’Hair (via homoyoudidnot)
“The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen...”
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— As attributed to Ferdinand Magellan (1480-1521), Portuguese navigator, by Robert G. Ingersoll. Source: The Great Quotations edited by George Seldes.
(via nonplussedbyreligion)
“They pick corn in Iowa. They pick Presidents in New Hampshire.”
– JON HUNTSMAN
Can we make him President now? And he shops at Trader Joe’s, too.
(via deadpresidents)
“The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be...”
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— Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906), Remarks at 28th annual convention of the National-American Woman Suffrage Association, January, 1896
(via nonplussedbyreligion)
September 2011
3 posts
4 tags
“Atheism: It’s not just a non-belief. It’s a personal relationship with reality.”
– Alexander Anderson-Brebner (via bleedthrough)
“Now what is the difference between an invisible, incorporeal, floating dragon...”
– Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World (via pain-killers)
6 tags
“I have a friend who’s an artist and he’s some times taken a view which I don’t...”
– Richard Feynman, Vivva La Vivvo (via cocknbull)
August 2011
10 posts
4 tags
“I would request, that my body in death, be buried not cremated, so that the...”
– Neil deGrasse Tyson on dying (via ageofreason)
2 tags
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“If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shabby furniture, let us be more...”
– Albert Einstein (via zeitgeistmovement)
4 tags
“First of all, let’s clarify what the NASA budget is. Do you realize that the...”
– Neil deGrasse Tyson (via david)
This is brilliant and sad. It’s the end of dreams time.
(via discoverynews)
3 tags
“When my husband died, because he was so famous and known for not being a...”
– Ann Druyan, talking about Carl Sagan after his death (via drinkthe-koolaid)
“Treason doth never prosper: what’s the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call...”
– Sir John Harington (via goodreasonnews)
“Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind...”
– Carl Sagan (via ageofreason)
“Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate....”
– Homer, The Iliad (via adonnen-estenniel)
July 2011
5 posts
“For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist...”
– Carl Sagan (via quote-book)
“Love the quite of the night time when the sun is in the deathly sea. I can feel...”
– White Lies (via atomos)
One of my favorite tunes…
“You say you’re worried about children; I’m not worried about children, I’m...”
– Neil deGrasse Tyson
Preach it!
(via mission-to-mars)
Fuck yes.
(via simplisticecstasy)
“The Republicans, who control the House and now have greater control of the...”
– Bill Clinton (via whiporwill)
“Casey Anthony was found not guilty of murdering her daughter, as the American...”
– Jon Stewart (via amazingatheist)
May 2011
4 posts
“I’m tired of hearing America is the best at this or the best at that all the...”
– For the Sake of Science (via azspot)
“They don’t get it. We love America just as much as they do. But in a different...”
– Al Franken (via whiporwill)
“The theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats...”
– Joseph McCabe (1867 - 1955) - Former Roman Catholic priest and scholar who renounced his faith and later wrote nearly 250 Atheistic and anti-religious books (via hatefulatheist)
“To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real...”
– Richard Feynman would be 93 today. He was a really interesting character, had some great insights in physics, and worked to popularise subjects like Quantum Mechanics. As well as science, he was interested in philosophy, art, samba music and lock-picking. [read this book] [source] (via matthen)
April 2011
8 posts
“Science is far from a perfect instrument of knowledge. It’s just the best we...”
– Carl Sagan, American astronomer (via shitigotbanned)
“Imagine a world in which generations of human beings come to believe that...”
– -Sam Harris
(via etsme)
“And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an...”
– Bertrand Russell (via ageofreason)
“It is not the strongest species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the...”
– Charles Darwin (via drinkthe-koolaid)
“Every newspaper in America, with very few exceptions, has a daily astrology...”
– Carl Sagan in a 1989 interview with Ted Turner discussing scientific illiteracy and the need for education reform (via mohandasgandhi)
“To believe that the Earth is less than 10,000 years old, given that we know the...”
– Richard Dawkins
(h/t DoubtingMarcus)
“Life is but a momentary glimpse into the wonder of this astonishing universe,...”
– Carl Sagan (via bringtheruckuss)
“As an atheist, I see nothing “wrong” in believing in a god. I don’t think there...”
– Ricky Gervais: “Why I’m an Atheist” (via patricktimothy)
March 2011
10 posts
“I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don’t know the anwer.”
– Douglas Adams (via wecanburndaylight)
“Life is about being confused. Each decade is merely about dealing with that...”
– DearCokeTalk.tumblr.com
“Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted.”
– Randy Pausch (via quote-book)
“If your face is swollen from the severe beatings of life, smile and pretend to...”
– Nigerian proverb (via yourstrulylp)
“Our story is the story of the universe, and every piece of everyone, of everyone...”
– Professor Brian Cox, ‘Wonders of the Universe’ ep. 2. (via longlostpath)
“Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care...”
– Marcus Aurelius (via atheistinspiration)
“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an...”
– John Steinbeck (via miketodd07, thirdworldgirl-)
“There’s only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.”
– 15 Things Kurt Vonnegut Said Better Than Anyone Else Ever Has Or Will (via wilwheaton)
“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that...”
– Atticus Finch (‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ by Harper Lee)
February 2011
1 post
