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Abu'l-Ala-Al-Ma'arri (More Info) (973-1057) |
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"The world holds two classes of men -- intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence." |
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"Better to be unborn than untaught, for ignorance is the root of all misfortune." |
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Isaac Asimov (More Info) (1920-1992) |
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"If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them." |
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"Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly and warn the people of Canada..." |
Source: Canadian Atheists Newsletter, 1994 |
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"Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket, a thumb to suck, a skirt to hold. What have we to offer in exchange? Uncertainty! Insecurity!" |
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"To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today." |
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Daniel J. Boorstin (More Info) (1914 - 2004) |
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"I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics and ideologues who menace decency and progress. No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortur." |
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François Cavanna (More Info) (Born in 1923) |
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"The great brainwave of the inventors of Christianity: "God is love!" And then? What does it change? You may always preach a god of love to men, they will make use of him to sanctify their villainies and their crimes "for the good fight" as well as the massacres en masse, blessing priests leading the way." |
Source: Lettre ouverte aux culs-bénits |
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Noam Chomsky (More Info) (Born in 1928) |
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"It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies." |
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"Prophet just means intellectual. They were people giving geopolitical analysis, moral lessons, that sort of thing. We call them intellectuals today. There were the people we honor as prophets, there were the people we condemn as false prophets. But if you look at the biblical record, at the time, it was the other way around. The flatterers of the Court of King Ahab were the ones who were honored. The ones we call prophets were driven into the desert and imprisoned." |
Source: Interview by Harry Kreisler March 22, 2002 |
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