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Food for thought

Science is basically an inoculation against charlatans.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
May 1, 2017

To mistrust science and deny the validity of the scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You’d better go look for work as a plant or wild animal.

P.J. O'Rourke
April 26, 2017

It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.

Albert Einstein
April 15, 2017

Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge’.

Isaac Asimov
April 8, 2017

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

Carl Sagan
April 8, 2017

If my child had prejudice in his head, I’d be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.

Salman Rushdie
March 28, 2017

If we don’t stand for something, you may be sure we will fall for anything.

Irene Dunne
March 24, 2017

The longer a politician is in office, the more susceptible they are to corruption.

John Laurie
March 15, 2017

Party and ideology routinely trump institutional interests and responsibilities. Regular order - the set of rules, norms and traditions designed to ensure a fair and transparent process – was the first casualty. The results: No serious deliberation. No meaningful oversight of the executive. A culture of corruption.

Thomas E. Mann
March 7, 2017