Abid Uzair

“Education should have two objects: first, to give definite knowledge—reading and writing, languages and mathematics, and so on; secondly, to create those mental habits which will enable people to acquire knowledge and form sound judgments for themselves.”
― Bertrand Russell, Free Thought and Official Propaganda

“It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living. It is clear also that thought is not free if all the arguments on one side of a controversy are perpetually presented as attractively as possible, while the arguments on the other side can only be discovered by diligent search. Both these obstacles exist in every large country known to me, except China, which is the last refuge of freedom.”
― Bertrand Russell, Free Thought and Official Propaganda

“More generally, when we find ourselves irritated by someone’s shortcomings, we should pause to reflect on our own shortcomings.”
― William B. Irvine, A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy

“How can you derive meaning, purpose, or ethics from evolution? You can’t. Evolution is simply a theory about the process and patterns of life’s diversification, not a grand philosophical scheme about the meaning of life. It can’t tell us what to do, or how we should behave. And this is the big problem for many believers, who want to find in the story of our origins a reason for our existence, and a sense of how to behave.”
― Jerry A. Coyne, Why Evolution Is True