“There is no such thing as philosophy-free science; there is only science whose philosophical baggage is taken on board without examination.” Daniel Dennett “God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.” Friedrich Nietzsche “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” Søren Kierkegaard “The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.” Bertrand Russell “One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.” Marie Curie “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.” Carl Sagan “Culture is not your friend.” Terence McKenna

“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” Alan Watts “Welcome to the desert of the real.” Slavoj Žižek “Culture critic who argues with everyone, the art and the academy included.” Camille Paglia “We are survival machines — robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes.” Richard Dawkins “What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.” Christopher Hitchens “Neuroscientist and philosopher. The End of Faith (2004) and Letter to a Christian Nation (2006) took on fundamentalism, morality and rationality.” Sam Harris