Favorite Quotes

Some of my favorite quotes...another page that is constantly evolving and growing.  Please check back often (and feel free to suggest quotes you like, too)!

"Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?"
— Douglas Adams


"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be."
— Douglas Adams


"We are like butterflies who flutter for a day, and think it's forever."
— Carl Sagan


"The cosmos is also within us. We're made of star stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."
— Carl Sagan

"For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring."
— Carl Sagan 


"Frederick Douglass taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom.  But reading is still the path."
— Carl Sagan


"Atheism is a religion like not collecting stamps is a hobby."
— Penn Jillette 


"Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear..."
— Thomas Jefferson


"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who has said it, not even if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense."
— Buddha


"Debating creationists on the topic of evolution is rather like trying to play chess with a pigeon; it knocks the pieces over, craps on the board, and flies back to its flock to claim victory."
 — S. D. Weitzenhoffer


Science writes things in pencil and always has a big eraser handy, because science doesn’t say “This is the truth.” It says “This is the best explanation we have so far, given what we have seen. When we see more, we’ll use our eraser and change our explanation a little, or even a lot, to make it even better.”
— Richard Wade


"Ubi dubium ibi libertas" (Where there is doubt, there is freedom.)
— Latin proverb