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SKEPTICS GUIDE CONTEST!!!
sheila:
I keep a collection of homemade screensavers with quotes I like. Here are the ones short enough to fit on a t-shirt.
Reality is that which, when you cease to believe, continues to exist (don't know author)
Your god is too small (Phil Plait, speaking brilliantly at TAM4)
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one (George Bernard Shaw)
Religions find miracles in gods
Scientists find miracles everywhere (don't know author)
sheila:
Oops, funny or witty? Well maybe the third one above. The rest, not so much.
Paulhoff:
I'm happy to say that in the whole universe only one planet, so far, has been infected with humans.
I fake pray; it keeps me from going up in smoke on the stake.
Faith is good, as long as you don’t spread it around.
Everyone is ignorance about something and can learn, excluding stupid people, who stay stupid no matter what you do.
If you are religious and tripped over reality, would you get up and go back and only kick it.
Is that intern or infirm, or did it become infirm after the intern.
Much worse than the Question not asked is the Answer not given.
Christianity, Years of fear.
With true free will there can be no punishment, with punishment there is no true free will.
The problem with common sense, it is not common enough.
Paul
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Paulhoff:
If a finch comes but once a year to a 10,000 foot high granite mountain to sharpen it's beak, the time it takes to wear it down to a grain of sand that will fit thru the eye of a needle, THAT'S IS ONE SECOND IN ETERNITY.
(Chris Rush)
Mr. Question Man, if the earth is shaped like a ball, why aren't people falling off.
Well, that is a common misconception; people are falling off all the time.
(Stolen and modified from Ernie Kovacs)
Paul
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Wonko the Sane:
If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France
First they ignore science, then they laugh at science, then they fight science, then science wins.
- Mahatma Ghandi (Modified by me, changed "you" to "science"
An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: it rarely happens that Saul becomes Paul. What does happen is that its opponents gradually die out and that the growing generation is familiarized with the idea from the beginning.
- Max Plank
The truth will set you free, but first it will probably piss you off.
- Anonymous
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
- Bertrand Russell
Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.
- Bertrand Russell
Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
- Bertrand Russell
Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth, more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.
- Bertrand Russell
These are not really skeptical quotes but I saw a few other religious ones
I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.
- Stephen Roberts
I have examined all the known superstitions of the world, and I do not find in our particular superstition of Christianity one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology.
- Thomas Jefferson
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
- Bertrand Russell
I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.
- Douglas Adams
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
- Steven Weinberg
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