Mark Twain

"Arguments have no chance against petrified training; they wear it as little as the waves wear a cliff."

Sam Harris

"The core of science is not mathematical modeling. It is intellectual honesty. It is a willingness to have our certainties about the world constrained by good evidence and good argument."

Richard Dawkins

"My last vestige of "hands off religion" respect disappeared in the smoke and choking dust of September 11th 2001, followed by the "National Day of Prayer," when prelates and pastors did their tremulous Martin Luther King impersonations and urged people of mutually incompatible faiths to hold hands, united in homage to the very force that caused the problem in the first place."

Christopher Hitchens

"What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence."