"In any field, find the strangest thing and then explore it." ~ John Archibald Wheeler
"At least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols." ~ Aldous Huxley
Faith, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel. ~ Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
Pray, v. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner, confessedly unworthy. ~ Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality. ~ Alexis de Tocqueville
Religions are conclusions for which the facts of nature supply no major premises. ~ Ambrose Bierce