Religious people split into three main groups when faced with science. I shall label them the "know-nothings", the "know-alls", and the "no-contests"
-- Richard Dawkins
Monday, June 30, 2008
Quote of the Day
Sunday, June 29, 2008
Saturday, June 28, 2008
Quote of the Day
Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense.
-- Stephen Jay Gould, Dinosaur in a Haystack
Week in Review
Friday, June 27, 2008
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Quote of the Day
It could not be happening because this sort of thing did not happen. Any contradictory evidence could be safely ignored.
-- Terry Pratchett (Jingo)
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Quote of the Day
I'm having the best day of my life, and I owe it all to not going to Church!
-- Homer J. Simpson
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Quote of the Day
Sergeant Colon had had a broad education. He'd been to the School of My Dad Always Said, the College of It Stands to Reason, and was now a postgraduate student at the University of What Some Bloke In the Pub Told Me.
-- Terry Pratchett
Monday, June 23, 2008
Quote of the Day
You have exactly ten seconds to change that look of disgusting pity into one of enormous respect!
-- Max Bialystock
Sunday, June 22, 2008
Quote of the Day
When you're part of a team, you stand up for your teammates. Your loyalty is to them. You protect them through good and bad, because they'd do the same for you.
-- Yogi Berra
Saturday, June 21, 2008
Quote of the Day
It's a recession when your neighbour loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
-- Harry S. Truman
Week in Review
Friday, June 20, 2008
Quote of the Day
Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Quote of the Day
There are two essential rules of management. One: the customer is always right. Two: they must be punished for their arrogance.
-- Dogbert
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Quote of the Day
I love to go down to the schoolyard and watch all the little children jump up and down and run around yelling and screaming... They don't know I'm only using blanks.
-- Emo Philips
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Monday, June 16, 2008
Quote of the Day
Well, ya see, Norm, it's like this. A herd of buffalo can only move as fast as the slowest buffalo. And when the herd is hunted, it is the slowest and weakest ones at the back that are killed first. This natural selection is good for the herd as a whole because the general speed and health of the group keeps improving by the regular killing of the weakest members.
In much the same way, the human brain can only operate as fast as the slowest brain cells. Excessive intake of alcohol, as we know, kills brain cells. But naturally, it attacks the slowest and weakest brain cells first. In this way, regular consumption of beer eliminates the weaker brain cells, making the brain a faster and more efficient machine. That's why you always feel smarter after a few beers.
-- Clifford C. Clavin Jr.
Sunday, June 15, 2008
Quote of the Day
In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed; they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
-- Orson Welles
Saturday, June 14, 2008
Week in Review
Friday, June 13, 2008
Quote of the Day
He's turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable. Now he's miserable and depressed.
-- David Frost
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Quote of the Day
Melodrama coming from you is about as natural as an oral bowel movement.
-- Randal Graves
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Quote of the Day
We scientists, whose tragic destiny it has been to make the methods of annihilation ever more gruesome and more effective, must consider it our solemn and transcendent duty to do all in our power in preventing these weapons from being used for the brutal purpose for which they were invented.
-- Albert Einstein
Monday, June 09, 2008
Quote of the Day
The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim or doubtful.
-- Mark Twain
Sunday, June 08, 2008
Quote of the Day
... we must counterpose the overwhelming judgment provided by consistent observations and inferences by the thousands. The earth is billions of years old and its living creatures are linked by ties of evolutionary descent. Scientists stand accused of promoting dogma by so stating, but do we brand people illiberal when they proclaim that the earth is neither flat nor at the center of the universe? Science *has* taught us some things with confidence! Evolution on an ancient earth is as well established as our planet's shape and position. Our continuing struggle to understand how evolution happens (the "theory of evolution") does not cast our documentation of its occurrence -- the "fact of evolution" -- into doubt.
-- Stephen Jay Gould, "The Verdict on Creationism", The Skeptical Inquirer, Vol. XII No. 2.
Saturday, June 07, 2008
Quote of the Day
The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl.
-- Dave Barry
Friday, June 06, 2008
Quote of the Day
I don't think I'm alone when I say I'd like to see more and more planets fall under the ruthless domination of our solar system.
-- Jack Handey
Thursday, June 05, 2008
Quote of the Day
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.
-- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Wednesday, June 04, 2008
Quote of the Day
Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
-- Sir Arthur Eddington
Tuesday, June 03, 2008
Monday, June 02, 2008
Quote of the Day
As long as people are still having premartial sex with many anonymous partners while at the same time experimenting with mind-expanding drugs in a consequence-free environment, I'll be sound as a pound!
-- Austin Powers
Sunday, June 01, 2008
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)