I don't think whole populations are villainous, but Americans are just extraordinarily unaware of all kinds of things. If you live in the middle of that vast continent, with apparently everything your heart could wish for just because you were born there, then why worry? […] If people lose knowledge, sympathy and understanding of the natural world, they're going to mistreat it and will not ask their politicians to care for it.

David Attenborough

He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair.

Henry David Thoreau

All that was required to measure the planet was a man with a stick and a brain. In other words, couple an intellect with some experimental apparatus and almost anything seems achievable.

Simon Singh, “Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe”

The scientific method is nothing more than a system of rules to keep us from lying to each other.

Ken Norris

People often think I'm a faker, but I'm usually honest, in a certain way — in such a way that often nobody believes me!

Richard Feynman

What do you care what other people think?

Arline (Mrs. Richard Feynman)

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

Galileo Galilei

We must conduct research and then accept the results. If they don't stand up to experimentation, Buddha's own words must be rejected.

Dalai Lama XIV

Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

George Carlin

Boy, those French: they have a different word for everything!

Steve Martin

Agnostics are just atheists without balls.

Stephen Colbert

Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.

Isaac Asimov

You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

Dr. Seuss

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

Cicero

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

Albert Camus

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Oscar Wilde, “The Happy Prince and Other Stories”

If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.

Peter Hamilton

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.

Garrison Keillor

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Anaïs Nin

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?

George Carlin

Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.

Dr. Seuss

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.

Albert Einstein

George Bernard Shaw: “I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend… if you have one.”
Churchill: “Cannot possibly attend first night; will attend second, if there is one.”

Sir Winston Churchill