Quotes

It is perhaps just dawning on five or six minds that physics too is only an interpretation and arrangement of the world (according to our own requirements) and not an explanation of the world. (Nietzsche)

It fascinates me that people believe what you tell them. What's truth? What's real? It's what you want it to be. (Vic Reeves in an interview with the Sun newspaper)

If you believed it, it exists. If you didn't, it didn't exist. (Tom Friedman, conceptual artist speaking about curses)

Simplifying to the extreme, I define post-modernism as incredulity towards meta-narratives. (Jean-Francois Lyotard)

Post-modernism knows no commitments. (Peter Fuller)

The all-pervasive sentiment of post-modernist culture is irony. If, in doubt, smile. (Adrienne Chaplin)

Heaven will be whatever you want it to be. (Holly, twelve-year old student)

I think I believe in reincarnation a bit. (Hannah, a nine-year old girl.)

We don't discover anything. We construct different worlds to suit our tastes. A bit of Cabala will cheer us up! (Rocky)


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	What a great miracle is man, Asclepius. Who then will not look with awe upon this our chameleon, this nature capable of transforming itself. (Pico della Mirandola 1463-1494, Neo-Platonist and Cabala devotee.) Where can the perfectibility of man stop, armed with geometry and the mechanical arts and chemistry? (Sebastian Mercier - 1740-1814) Electricity can do anything. It can dispel darkness and gloom. One push of a button and clickety-click out comes a new man. (Soviet song) Such is the power of science, that the average human-being will become an Aristotle, a Goethe, a Marx. And beyond this new peaks will rise. (Trotsky) Poetry can make you an Achilles, Hector and Ulysees. Poetry is indeed something divine. (Shelley) Science, uniquely, is the one element of human culture that is independent of individual societies and is truly international. (David Attenborough) Truth means scientific truth. (Richard Dawkins) Humanity should accept that science has eliminated the justification for believing in cosmic purposes, and that any survival of purpose is inspired solely by sentiment. (Peter Atkins) Science gives you facts sir! Religion just gives you opinions! (Ronny, GCSE student) We discover that autonomous humans can understand and control the world. It's great being an atheist. (Rocky)


	Such, in outline, but even more purposeless, more void of meaning, is the world which Science presents for our belief. (Bertrand Russell) Also, man now realises that he is an accident, that he is a completely futile being, that he has to play out the game without reason. (Francis Bacon) We are all carcasses. (Francis Bacon) Man is a useless passion. (Sartre) Pity on the whole thwarts the law of evolution, which is the law of selection. (Nietzsche) What is more harmful than any vice? - Active sympathy for the ill-constituted and weak - Christianity... (Nietzsche) Life is deeply steeped in suffering, and cannot escape from it; our entrance into it takes place amid tears, at bottom its course is always tragic and its end is even more so. (Schopenhauer) We discover that the world and humans are unspeakably horrible. It's miserable being an atheist. (Rocky)


	It is perhaps just dawning on five or six minds that physics too is only an interpretation and arrangement of the world (according to our own requirements) and not an explanation of the world. (Nietzsche) It fascinates me that people believe what you tell them. What's truth? What's real? It's what you want it to be. (Vic Reeves in an interview with the Sun newspaper) If you believed it, it exists. If you didn't, it didn't exist. (Tom Friedman, conceptual artist speaking about curses) Simplifying to the extreme, I define post-modernism as incredulity towards meta-narratives. (Jean-Francois Lyotard) Post-modernism knows no commitments. (Peter Fuller) The all-pervasive sentiment of post-modernist culture is irony. If, in doubt, smile. (Adrienne Chaplin) Heaven will be whatever you want it to be. (Holly, twelve-year old student) I think I believe in reincarnation a bit. (Hannah, a nine-year old girl.) We don't discover anything. We construct different worlds to suit our tastes. A bit of Cabala will cheer us up! (Rocky)