Richard Dawkins quotes and words of wisdom

"There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can"t prove that there aren"t any, so shouldn"t we be agnostic with respect to fairies?"
Found in the topic Unsorted.

"No doubt soaring cathedrals, stirring music, moving stories and parables, help a bit. But by far the most important variable determining your religion is the accident of birth."
Found in the topic Religion.

"Nature is not cruel, pitilessly, indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous ? indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose."
Found in the topic Nature.

Interesting Quotes

The three fundamental Rules of Robotics...One: a robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm...Two:..a robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law...Three: a robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First and Second Laws.Isaac Asimov - US science fiction novelist & scholar (1920 - 1992)

Everything has been figured out except how to live.Jean-Paul Sartre - French author & existentialist philosopher (1905 - 1980)