The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
H.L. Mencken
June 10, 2017
The conflict between religion and science is inherent and very nearly zero-sum. The success of science often comes at the expense of religious dogma; the maintenance of religious dogma always comes at the expense of science.
Sam Harris
June 4, 2017
There can be no truce between science and religion.
J.B.S. Haldane
June 4, 2017
Flags and anthems are unimportant. They are just symbols. You need to respect and fight for democratic institutions, or you will lose everything, flags and anthems included.
John Laurie
May 25, 2017
Racist thought and action says far more about the person they come from than the person they are directed at.
Chris Crutcher
May 13, 2017
Science is basically an inoculation against charlatans.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
May 1, 2017
To mistrust science and deny the validity of the scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You’d better go look for work as a plant or wild animal.
P.J. O'Rourke
April 26, 2017
It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.
Albert Einstein
April 15, 2017
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge’.
Isaac Asimov
April 8, 2017
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
