The average man is happier in the wrong with a crowd, than he is in the right with only one or two companions. - Chapman Cohen

Facts are more insistent than theories, and in the last resort it is the nature of things which determine the course of our actions.

Gods are fragile things, they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense. They thrive on servility and shrink before independence. They feed upon worship as kings do upon flattery. That is why the cry of gods at all times is "Worship us or we perish."

Atheist is really ʺa thoroughly honest, unambiguous term,ʺ it admits of no paltering and of no evasion, and the need of the world, now as ever, is for clear‐cut issues and unambiguous speech.