PZ Myers Quotes

Most of what happens in the world is just a consequence of natural, universal laws- laws that apply everywhere and to everything, with no special exemptions or amplifications for your benefit- given variety by the input of chance. Everything that you as a human being consider cosmically important is an accident.

And of course death can't be conquered ... but oh, the battle can be glorious.

Religion is to misogyny as disease is to misery - not the sole cause, but a significant contributor

Common sense - so rare it's a god damn superpower

It's amazing how much detail Catholics will go into documenting why people shouldn't do the things that they all do anyway.

Science is not infallible, but it has something religion lacks: a process of testing claims against real-world observations.

Human beings are still fish.

Religion is a barbarous obsidian knife poised over our chests put it in a cabinet and admire it as a work of art, but don't ever wield the damned thing ever again.

We live our lives for our life's sake, rather than for illusions about rewards and satisfaction after we're dead.

The mediocrity principle simply states that you aren't special. The universe does not revolve around you; this planet isn't privileged in any unique way; your country is not the perfect product of directed, intentional fate; and that tuna sandwich you had for lunch was not plotting to give you indigestion.

We shouldn't be gratuitously obnoxious; we should be purposefully obnoxious.

We godless lack that certainty, and we know the world is a complex place that requires compromise and is not ruled by a moral force - virtue is subject to negotiation, and is found in working together with others to find mutually satisfactory solutions. Good is not absolute, it is an emergent property that arises from successful networks of individuals. It is also something that is measured by evidence: we look at the good that people do, not the promises that they make and never keep, or the lies that dovetail nicely into dogma. Competence is a virtue. Intent is meaningless without action.

Science provides tangible evidence of its accuracy and importance. Religion makes excuses for its absence of the same.