Famous quotes, from famous people:
"Unless you assume a God, the question of life's purpose is meaningless"
..... Bertrand Russell ... atheist
"God doesn't play dice." ..... Albert Einstein
"Surely God would not have created such a being as man, to exist
for only a day ... !~! No, no, man was made for immortality. ..... Abraham Lincoln. ............happy days paul
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Yogi - There are several of Einstein's quotes that some (you?) might argue work for "the believers" - in the first quote he's arguably on about lateral thinking - but whether he's thinking of "mystical" or "warped space / relativity theory spin offs" if open for conjecture... the second quote is pretty clear though...
The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. - Albert Einstein
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mystical. It is the source of all true art and science. - Albert Einstein
But your Einstein quote above (about dice) has been discredited. - as per Hawking's quote below :-
Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen. - Stephen W. Hawking
A few others - covering pretty much the full spectrum - obviously I'm with the technocrats on this
- assuming I'm allowed to be a technocrat who loves mother nature that is ...
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity...and I'm not sure about the universe. - Albert Einstein
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. - Albert Einstein, in The New Convergence
Do you remember how electrical currents and "unseen waves" were laughed at? The knowledge about man is still in its infancy. - Albert Einstein
He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice. - Albert Einstein
I have yet to meet a single person from our culture, no matter what his or her educational background, IQ, and specific training, who had powerful transpersonal experiences and continues to subscribe to the materialistic monism of Western science. - Albert Einstein
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing knowledge. - Albert Einstein
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions. - Albert Einstein
I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts; the rest are details. - Albert Einstein
All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force… We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter.- Max Planck, Nobel Prize-winning Father of Quantum Theory
Whoever talks about Planck's constant and does not feel at least a little giddy obviously doesn't appreciate what he is talking about. - Niels Bohr
There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end of the search for the ultimate laws of nature. - Stephen W. Hawking
The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired. - Stephen W. Hawking
We shall not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. - T. S. Eliot
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.- Oscar Wilde
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become. - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. - William Faulkner, Nobel Prize acceptance speech
The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself. - Archibald MacLeish
Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself. - Chief Seattle
That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it... We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself. - Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus
Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up! - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Curiouser and curiouser! - Lewis Carroll
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. - Lewis Carroll
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. - Carl Gustav Jung
Suddenly, from behind the rim of the moon, in long, slow-motion moments of immense majesty, there emerges a sparkling blue and white jewel, a light, delicate, sky-blue sphere laced with slowly swirling veils of white, rising gradually like a small pearl in a thick sea of black mystery. It takes more than a moment to fully realize this is Earth…home. My view of our planet was a glimpse of divinity. - Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 astronaut and founder, Institute of Noetic Sciences
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. - Galileo Galilei
The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced. - Aart Van Der Leeuw
Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion. - Democritus of Abdera
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but usually manages to pick himself up, walk over or around it, and carry on. - Winston Churchill
All great truths begin as blasphemies. - George Bernard Shaw
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes. - William James
The spirit down here in man and the spirit up there in the sun,
in reality are only one spirit, and there is no other one. - The Upanishads
To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge. - Copernicus
Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own. - Georg C. Lichtenberg
When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it - always.- Mahatma Gandhi
etc
just some light Sunday afternoon reading, ...jumbled snippets of stuff that originated in the grey stuff between the ears of men .... brains which evolved from that first one cell protozoan in some primeval mud somewhere - 2020