"Hell must be isothermal, for otherwise the resident engineers and physical chemists (of which there must be some) could set up a heat engine to run a refrigerator to cool off a portion of their surroundings to any desired temperature."  - Henry Albert Bent

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."  - Albert Einstein

"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed. It was the experience of mystery-- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion. A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, our perceptions of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty, which only in their most primitive forms are accessible to our minds -- it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute true religiosity; in this sense, and in this alone, I am a deeply religious man." - Albert Einstein, The World as I See It

"Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private schools, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and the state forever separated." - Ulysses S. Grant

"Question with boldness even the existence of God; because if there be one, He must approve the homage of Reason rather than that of blindfolded Fear."  - Thomas Jefferson

"It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are 20 gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." - Thomas Jefferson

"When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet. When toast is dropped, it always lands butter-side-down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat [butter facing up]. The two will hover, spinning, inches above the ground. With a giant buttered-toast/cat array, a high-speed monorail could easily link New York with Chicago."  - Omni

"When subjected to extreme feminine heat and pressure, male hydrocarbons will often produce a diamond."  - Omni

"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."  - Pablo Picasso

"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."  - Carl Sagan

"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy."  - Shakespeare, Hamlet, I v 168-9

"What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculty! In form and moving how express and admirable! In action, how like an angel, in apprehension, how like a god!"  - Shakespeare, Hamlet, II ii 305-8

"You see things and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were and say, 'Why not?'"  - George Bernard Shaw

"A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of traditional culture, are thought highly educated and who have with considerable gusto been expressing their incredulity at the illiteracy of scientists. Once or twice I have been provoked and have asked the company how many of them could describe the Second Law of Thermodynamics. The response was cold: it was also negative."  - Charles Percy Snow

A polar bear is a rectangular bear after a coordinate transform.  - Unknown

Did you hear about the dyslexic agnostic insomniac who stays up all night wondering if there really is a Dog?  - Unknown

If you're not part of the solution, then you're part of the precipitate.  - Unknown

Life is a three legged table with something heavy on it.  - Unknown

Governments, like diapers, should be changed often and for the same reasons.  - Unknown

Include the success of others in your dreams for your own success.  - Unknown

Never put off until tomorrow what you can put off indefinitely.  - Unknown

Two wrongs don't make a right, but three rights make a left.  - Unknown

You can only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.  - Unknown

"When I turned two I was really anxious, because I'd doubled my age in a year. I thought, if this keeps up, by the time I'm six I'll be ninety."  - Steven Wright

"Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time. I think I've forgotten this before."  - Steven Wright

"I have the world's largest collection of seashells. I keep it on all the beaches of the world...perhaps you've seen it."  - Steven Wright

"Was she so loved because her eyes were so beautiful or were her eyes so beautiful because she was so loved?"  - Anzia Yezierska

Back to About Kirby

On to Atheism