Chris

“Anybody can grow a bone in the penis; you don't have to be particularly healthy or tough.”
― Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene

“Don't you believe in flying saucers, they ask me? Don't you believe in telepathy? — in ancient astronauts? — in the Bermuda triangle? — in life after death?
No, I reply. No, no, no, no, and again no.
One person recently, goaded into desperation by the litany of unrelieved negation, burst out "Don't you believe in anything?"
Yes", I said. "I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I'll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it. The wilder and more ridiculous something is, however, the firmer and more solid the evidence will have to be.”
― Isaac Asimov

“Since one cannot know a radically better world is not possible, are we not betraying everyone by insisting on continuing to justify, and reproduce, the mess we have today? And anyway, even if we’re wrong, we might well get a lot closer.”
― David Graeber, Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology

“We are no longer a leader. Putin has become the leader, and it's an embarassment to our country.”
― Donald J. Trump, Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again