We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever
believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
—Richard
Dawkins
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think
and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps
because of, the lack of evidence.
—Richard Dawkins
Atheism is without God. It does not assert no God.
—Charles Bradlaugh
It is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding
to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives.
—Francis Bacon
Aim for the impossible and you will achieve the improbable.
—Camillo Särs
What could you do differently, starting today?
—Camillo Särs
Whoever thinks his problem can be solved using cryptography, doesn’t
understand his problem and doesn’t understand
cryptography.
—Attributed by Roger Needham and Butler Lampson to
each other (according to Ross Anderson)
The proper, wise balancing of one’s whole life may depend
upon the feasibility of a cup of tea at an unusual
hour.
—Arnold Bennett
As every man goes through life he fills in a number of forms for the record,
each containing a number of questions … There are thus hundreds of little
threads radiating from every man, millions of threads in all. If these threads
were suddenly to become visible, the whole sky would look like a spider’s web,
and if they materialized as rubber bands, buses; trams and even people would
all lose the ability to move, and the wind would be unable to carry torn-up
newspapers or autumn leaves along the streets of the city. They are not
visible, they are not material, but every man is constantly aware of their
existence…. Each man, permanently aware of his own invisible threads, naturally
develops a respect for the people who manipulate the threads.
—Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Cancer Ward, 1968.
Our times call for a deep and well-grounded spirituality, one that will give
birth to great patience, sincere respect, a willingness to listen, a genuine
commitment to personal transformation, humility, courage and, above all, hope.
—Michael Whelan
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