"We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good."

-- Carl Sagan

#Atheist Quotes #Science Quotes #Judging Quotes

“True, there are photographers who are failed artists, but so are most artists.”
“You're never going to learn something as profoundly as when it's purely out of curiosity”
“History is made every day. The challenge is getting everyone to pay attention to it.”

Source : "Do We Treat History Like a Dead Language?" by Adora Svitak, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 28, 2011.
“It is the fancy of every mortal that being cradled in the arms of mortality is a safe place for the time being.”
“Human excellence, parted from God, is like a fable flower, which, according to Rabbis, Eve plucked when passing out of paradise--severed from its native root, it is only the touching memorial of a lost Eden; sad, while charming--beautiful, but dead.”
“The Lord knows that I could not open scripture; he must by his prophetical office open it unto me. So after that being unsatisfied in the thing, the Lord was pleased to bring this scripture out of the Hebrews.”
“Talk English to me, Tommy. Parlez francais avec moi, Nicole. But the meanings are different-- in French you can be heroic and gallant with dignity, and you know it. But in English you can't be heroic and gallant without being a little absurd, and you know that too. That gives me an advantage.”
“I could not without vile hypocrisy and a miserable truckling to the smile of the world ... profess to join in worship which I wholly disapprove.”

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