http://www.northhertsandbedshumanists.org.uk/index.htmlNHBH QuotesenHNBHCopyright 20062008-03-16T15:35:48+00:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:46:26 +0000HNBHHome2008-03-16T15:35:48+00:00http://www.northhertsandbedshumanists.org.uk/content/quotes_files/ffe3d2c0827b4f26985e91233e89419c-5.html#unique-entry-id-5http://www.northhertsandbedshumanists.org.uk/content/quotes_files/ffe3d2c0827b4f26985e91233e89419c-5.html#unique-entry-id-5"As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress. Marcel Proust 1871 - 1922." ]]>HNBHHome2006-12-08T22:27:19+00:00http://www.northhertsandbedshumanists.org.uk/content/quotes_files/4514eb62b2ea0c7e5fe9a43eb41d3359-3.html#unique-entry-id-3http://www.northhertsandbedshumanists.org.uk/content/quotes_files/4514eb62b2ea0c7e5fe9a43eb41d3359-3.html#unique-entry-id-3"Religion is but a desperate attempt to find an escape from the truly dreadful situation in which we find ourselves. Here we are in this wholly fantastic universe with scarcely a clue as to whether our existence has any real significance. No wonder then that many people feel the need for some belief that gives them a sense of security, and no wonder that they become very angry with people like me who say that this is illusory."
Fred Hoyle
The Nature of the Universe
]]>HNBHHome2006-11-19T15:46:12+00:00http://www.northhertsandbedshumanists.org.uk/content/quotes_files/cabd65ba69c878d13165343166d54317-2.html#unique-entry-id-2http://www.northhertsandbedshumanists.org.uk/content/quotes_files/cabd65ba69c878d13165343166d54317-2.html#unique-entry-id-2"Thinking takes time(he says) whereas opinions can be reached instantly.
Indeed, they can actually be an impediment to thinking, because if you
give an opinion before you've finished thinking it through, you may not
know that that's what you think. Bad news for daily newspaper
columnists."
From Jonathan Ree on his 'freethinking' blog for the BBC:
www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/freethinkinguk, and seen in 'New Humanist Nov/Dec
2006]]>HNBHHome2006-11-09T19:22:50+00:00http://www.northhertsandbedshumanists.org.uk/content/quotes_files/349daac6d22dab7b0e4e2a5268e9261e-1.html#unique-entry-id-1http://www.northhertsandbedshumanists.org.uk/content/quotes_files/349daac6d22dab7b0e4e2a5268e9261e-1.html#unique-entry-id-1"Advocates of religiosity extol the virtues or moral habits that religion is supposed to instill in us. But we should be equally concerned with the intellectual habits it discourages."
Wendy Kaminer
The New Republic 14 October '96]]>HNBHHome2006-11-01T18:03:50+00:00http://www.northhertsandbedshumanists.org.uk/content/quotes_files/094b660854bcd1ce09d8e447dcd4b45a-0.html#unique-entry-id-0http://www.northhertsandbedshumanists.org.uk/content/quotes_files/094b660854bcd1ce09d8e447dcd4b45a-0.html#unique-entry-id-0"The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic."
John F. Kennedy
From his commencement address at Yale University,
June 11, 1962]]>