Great Quotes

Here is what I believe to be true: I believe that the general revelation of reality, that is, reality itself, was not crafted to lie to us.

Therefore, if science is at all true, if science is at all trustworthy, if everything really does fall to the ground in the same consistent manner, if sunlight really does behave the same everywhere, if gravity, electricity, mathematics, biology, chemistry, and so on, are at all consistent, then there is no supernatural at all.

Because if supernaturalism is at all true, then science is a deceit rendered by God: every cure by antibiotics, every successful surgical procedure, every airplane flight, every automotive drive, happens not because the natural world is real and consistent, but because some supernatural entity wants it to happen. That being could just as readily withdraw its consent and support.

Why any supernatural entity would craft and consistently sustain a universe that looks for all intents and purposes like a naturalistic universe-- sustaining an enormous deception-- is beyond me. But it is what Christians believe.

--Elf Sternberg

"Itchy means healing"
-Johnny Knoxville

"It might seem hypocritical when conservatives complain about 'grievance culture,' but there are valid and invalid grievances, okay? Valid is when your lawn and Subaru are being disrespected by teens. Invalid is when you're trying to address massive structural inequalities."

-Matt Christman

"Show a little respect, it's a fucking opera!"

-Keith Moon introducing "Tommy"

"There's an idea in act utilitarianism philosophy that there's a matrix of truth and as long as people tell the truth, it makes it more likely that other people are going to tell the truth because statements are believable. And that as soon as people start telling incorrect things, it makes everybody start doubting and it makes it likely that they will also spread false information. And I sort of feel that a lot of Internet stuff is like that. People feel like they can say anything. "Oh, that guy said it..." And it diminishes the amount of factual information that's out there. And then it makes everyone question the veracity of anything, no matter how well researched and thought out it is. They just think "ah, this is bullshit anyway." It's one thing if it's an opinion piece and then it's as good as anybody else's but if you're getting into factual stuff, I think it's a good to do some kind of check. And you can't just check it online."

Byron Coley

One of the worst things about the politics of the past 30 years is that the rich have forgotten to be afraid of the poor.

- Eric Hobsbawm

I am Mr. Desiato's personal bodyguard and I am responsible for his body and I am not responsible for yours, so take it away before it gets damaged.
- Douglas Adams writing my all-time favourite threat

"I wouldn't be afraid to drive it anywhere I didn't mind walking home from."

-A local mechanic, describing an old truck I used to own

You mean Queen Elizabeth II, I assume.

“This God doesn’t exist outside of matter, he’s unable to free himself of it, and that’s all he wants.”

—Stanisław Lem

“Everyone thinks Danny’s a jerk, but he’s not really a jerk, it’s just theory generating its own anti-theory.”

—Baird Whitlock

Everything we can know about the future (for example, the sun will rise tomorrow, the ice in the glass on the table in front of me will soon be melted, Henry is absolutely going to love Lost Highway) can in principle be deduced from nothing over and above the dynamical equations of motion and the probability-distribution which is uniform, on the standard measure, over the world’s present directly surveyable condition.

—David Z. Albert, Time & Chance

"Actually, [Harry Potter's] stories are very inspirational! I learned that true friends help just the one friend achieve their special destiny, and that the ends always justify the means if you’ve been chosen by God for a righteous crusade.”