"Faith is often the boast of the
man who is too lazy to investigate."
-- F. M. Knowles
"We can learn by the example of
the Catholic Church. Though its doctrinal edifice… comes into collision with
exact science and research,
it is none the less unwilling to sacrifice so much as one little syllable
of its dogmas. It has recognized quite correctly that its power of resistance
does not lie in its lesser or greater adaptation to the scientific findings of
the moment, which in reality are always fluctuating, but rather in rigidly
holding
to dogmas once established, for it is only such dogmas which lend to the
whole body the character of faith. And so it stands today more firmly than
ever."
-- Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf
"I cannot conceive of a God who
rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the kind that we experience
in ourselves.
Neither can I nor would I want to conceive of an individual that survives
his physical death; let feeble souls, from fear or absurd egoism,
cherish such thoughts. I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of
life and with the awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous
structure of the existing world, together with the devoted striving to
comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the Reason that manifests itself in
nature."
-- Albert Einstein
"All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these
aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life,
lifting it from the sphere
of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom."
-- Albert Einstein
"If people are good only because they fear punishment,
and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed."
-- Albert Einstein
