PZ Myers Quotes

#1. Science provides tangible evidence of its accuracy and importance. Religion makes excuses for its absence of the same.

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#2. The hypothesis of the supernatural and/or a supreme being is vague, unfounded, and inapplicable in any practical fashion

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#3. Religion is to misogyny as disease is to misery - not the sole cause, but a significant contributor

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#4. Science is not infallible, but it has something religion lacks: a process of testing claims against real-world observations.

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#5. And of course death can't be conquered ... but oh, the battle can be glorious.

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#6. Silence is an argument in favor of the status quo. A refusal to address an inequity is a strategy for maintaining that inequity.

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#7. We shouldn't be gratuitously obnoxious; we should be purposefully obnoxious.

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#8. Religion is a barbarous obsidian knife poised over our chests put it in a cabinet and admire it as a work of art, but don't ever wield the damned thing ever again.

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#9. Human beings are still fish.

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#10. It's amazing how much detail Catholics will go into documenting why people shouldn't do the things that they all do anyway.

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#11. We are not princes of the earth, we are the descendants of worms, and any nobility must be earned.

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#12. Common sense - so rare it's a god damn superpower

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#13. We live our lives for our life's sake, rather than for illusions about rewards and satisfaction after we're dead.

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#14. Rational people have better things to do than grant unwarranted credibility to every half-assed delusion.

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#15. Very clever people are often very clever at creating rationalisations for insane beliefs.

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#16. Religion is an act of sedition against reason. Whatever religion is most seductive and likely to draw in victims to surrender their skepticism is the worst.

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