Charles Robert Darwin (12 February 1809 – 19 March 1882)
English Naturalist, Author, proposed the Scientific Theory that
Evolution resulted from a process that he called Natural Selection.
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
Christopher Eric Hitchens (13 April 1949 – 15 December 2011)
English-American, Literary Critic, Journalist, Author,
Essayist, Polemicist, and Outspoken Anti-theist
Don’t take refuge in the false security of consensus and the feeling that whatever you think you’re bound to be okay because you’re in the safely moral majority . . . my own opinion is enough for me and I claim the right to have it, defend it against any consensus, any majority, anywhere, anyplace, anytime; and any anyone who disagrees with this can pick a number, get in line, and kiss my ass.
Source: Syracuse Cultural Workers
Al Stefanelli
Author, Journalist, Outspoken Atheist,
Blog, “A Voice Of Reason In An Unreasonable World”
Reason is to examine a statement, ponder the validity of it, consider the source of it, question the authority of it, search for the truth behind it and make an intelligent assessment of it.
Image found here on 12.22.2011
Found at MoveOn.org on 12.21.2011
François-Anatole Thibault (16 April 1844 – 12 October 1924)
French Poet, Journalist, Novelist, Ironic, and Skeptical
An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t.
I think he was one of the greatest orators of all time. He was a polymath, a wit, immensely knowledgeable, and a valiant fighter against all tyrants including imaginary supernatural ones.
Always Question Authority 