Today is the birthday of the following people:
Robert Fitzgerald (1910 - 1985):
"Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation."
Art Clokey (1921 - 2010):
"Clay is embedded in
our subconscious. It has been there for at least 50,000 years."
Jane Siberry (1955 - ):
"It won’t rain all the
time
The sky won’t fall
forever"
Today is also Freethought Day. Here are some quotations to commemorate it:
“Nature is what we
know. We do not know about the gods of religions. And nature is not kind, or
merciful, or loving. If God made me – the fabled God of the three qualities of
which I spoke – mercy, kindness, love – He also made me the fish I catch and eat.
And where do His mercy, kindness, love for that fish come in? No; nature made
us – nature did it all – not the gods of the religions.” – Thomas Edison
“The idea of an
ordered and elegant universe is a lovely one. One worth clinging to. But you don’t
need religion to appreciate the ordered existence. It’s not just an idea. It’s
reality. We’re discovering the hidden orders of the universe every day. The
inverse square law of gravitation is amazing. Fractals, the theory of
relativity, the genome; these are magnificently beautiful constructs.” – Adam Savage
“There is something
feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life
without the help of comfortable myths. Moreover, since he is aware, however
dimly, that his opinions are not rational, he becomes furious when they are
disputed.” – Bertrand Russell
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