Quotes

Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear. – Thomas Jefferson

Science matters because it is the preeminent story of our age, an epic saga about who we are, where we came from, and where we are going. – Michael Shermer

Scientists don’t always know best about matters of science, but they’re more likely to be right than the critics who make that argument. - John Rennie

The one function that TV News performs very well is that when there is no news, we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were. – David Brinkley

Passion for passion, an evangelical Christian and I may be evenly matched. But we are not equally fundamentalist. The true scientist, however passionately he may “believe”, in evolution for example, knows exactly what would change his mind: evidence! The fundamentalist knows that nothing will. – Richard Dawkins

I have steadily endeavored to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved (and I cannot resist forming one on every subject), as soon as the facts are shown to be opposed to it.
- Charles R. Darwin

We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further. – Richard Dawkins

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief. – Gerry Spence