"The way to see by Faith, is to shut the eye of Reason."

Benjamin Franklin

We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free.

Epictetus - Roman philosopher and former slave - from Discourses

When we recognize our place in an immensity of light-years and in the passage of ages, when we grasp the intricacy, beauty and subtlety of life, then that soaring feeling, that sense of elation and humility combined, is surely spiritual.

Carl Sagan - The Demon-Hanted World:  Science as a Candle in the Dark

There cannot be a language more universal and more simple, more free from errors and obscurities...more worthy to express the invariable relations of all natural things than mathematics.  It interprets all phenomena by the same language, as if to attest the unity and simplicity of the plan of the universe, and to make still more evident that unchangeable order which presides over all natural causes.

Joseph Fourier - 1822

The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.

Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956)

If I believe that God tells me to love my enemies, but at the same time hates His own enemies and requires me to have one will with Him, which has the larger scope, love or hatred?

Mary Ann Evans (1819-1890) more commonly known by the nom de plume George Eliot