Monthly Archives: September 2010
Neil deGrasse Tyson at UB: What NASA Means to America's Future
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, a Distinguished Speaker at the University at Buffalo, answered a student’s question about federal cutbacks to NASA funding. Tyson is host of the PBS series NOVA scienceNOW and director of New York City’s Hayden Planetarium.
Penn Jillette: Atheists Are Better Educated in General
The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell, MSNBC, 9-28-2010
Penn Jillette passes the religion test.
Happy Blasphemy Day!
The golden rule
Atheists More Knowledgeable Than Catholics & Evangelicals About Religion
The true value of a man…
“The true value of a man is not determined by his possession, supposed or real, of Truth, but rather by his sincere exertion to get the Truth. It is not possession of the Truth, but rather the pursuit of Truth by which he extends his powers and in which his ever-growing perfectability is to be found. Possession makes one passive, indolent, and proud. If God were to hold all Truth concealed in His right hand, and in his left only the steady and diligent drive for Truth, albeit with a proviso that I would always and forever err in the process, and to offer me the choice, I would with all humility take the left hand.”
–Gotthold Lessing, Anti-Gokz.E (1778)
