Quotes!

[Aasimar]

"Positively the principle may be expressed: In matters of the intellect, follow your reason as far as it will take you, without regard to any other consideration. And negatively: In matters of the intellect, do not pretend that conclusions are certain which are not demonstrated or demonstrable. That I take to be the agnostic faith, which if a man keep whole and undefiled, he shall not be ashamed to look the universe in the face, whatever the future may have in store for him."
- Huxley, Agnosticism

 

[McBell]

"Not only were a good many of the revolutionary leaders more deist than Christian, the actual number of church members was rather small. Perhaps as few as five percent of the populace were church members in 1776" --Lynn R. Buzzard, Exec Dir of Christian Legal Society, as quoted in "They Haven't Got a Prayer," Elgin IL: David C. Cook, 1982, p. 81


"Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything." --Robert A. Heinlein


"That's the problem with religion: you beat your way past the clerics, fight your way through the demons, stand before the holy of holies, and when you rip away the veil, there's nothing there but a mirror." --Owen Rowley

 

[McBell]

Euthanasia was once much less serious a problem. When doctors had fewer "supportive" aids, artificial respirators, and knowledge of electrolyte balances, patients with terminal illnesses tended to die quickly. Now, medicine faces the fact that a person can be kept technically alive for an indefinite period, though they can never be cured. Thus the doctor must decide whether supportive therapy should be instituted and for how long. This is a problem because doctors have traditionally felt that they should keep their patients alive as long as possible, using every available technique. Now, the morality - and even the humanity - of such an approach must be questioned.
There is a corollary: whether the patient facing an incurable disease has the right to refuse supportive therapy; whether a patient facing weeks or months of terminal pain has a right to demand an easy and painless death; whether a patient who has put himself in a doctor's hands still retains ultimate life-and-death control over his own existence.

Crichton, Micheal. A Case of Need (Appendix). First ed. New York City: SIGNET, 1969. 415-416.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Bring war material with you from home, but forage on the enemy. Thus the army will have food enough for its needs.

-Sun Tzu

 

[Aasimar]

"The priests of the different religions sects. . . dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight, and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subdivision of the duperies on which they life."

- Thomas Jefferson