Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

-Thomas Jefferson
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence."

Richard Dawkins


"Leon Lederman, the physicist and Nobel laureate, once half-jokingly remarked that the real goal of physics was to come up with an equation that could explain the universe but still be small enough to fit on a T-shirt. In that spirit, Dawkins offered up his own T-shirt slogan for the ongoing evolution revolution:
Life results from the non-random survival of randomly varying replicators."

"Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet."

Napoleon Bonaparte

The 3 Laws of Prediction by Arthur C. Clark
  1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
  2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
  3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

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Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Why do we work so hard, yet let ourselves down so hard? You work your bloomin' ass off to get into a good college, then work your ass off some more to get a freakin cap of 4.5 so that you get a job at an big-shot oil company pushing buttons from 9 to 5, 6 days a week, 52 weeks a year for the rest of your miserable, pathetic life...Is this what we worked for? Is this what we fought for? Why give up the chance to make something of your sorry self? Why are those who want to make something of themselves labeled as 'arrogant', they ought to listen to their 'elders', give up these 'wild' ideas? Why are we told to shut up, yet ironically expected to come up with 'creative' ideas? Ironic ain't it? The fact that we let go of our childhood dreams to become what we always dreaded of becoming: MEDIOCRE.....
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