“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.” - Albert EinsteinTumblr (3.0; @tomppi)http://tomppi.tumblr.com/<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ln5vvwxQvh1qlystxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>“I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.”</p> <p>- Richard Dawkins</p>http://tomppi.tumblr.com/post/6769759030http://tomppi.tumblr.com/post/6769759030Thu, 23 Jun 2011 00:31:00 +0300<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ln1r3lqzxb1qlystxo1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>“<strong>Question with boldness</strong> even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.”</p> <p>- Thomas <em>Jefferson’s letter to his nephew, from Paris, August 10, 1787.</em></p>http://tomppi.tumblr.com/post/6692475061http://tomppi.tumblr.com/post/6692475061Thu, 23 Jun 2011 00:30:15 +0300<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ln75alxQoV1qlystxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>“For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.”</p> <p>- Carl Sagan</p>http://tomppi.tumblr.com/post/6790893326http://tomppi.tumblr.com/post/6790893326Thu, 23 Jun 2011 00:25:00 +0300<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ln7q1rQd6y1qlystxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death”</p> <p>- Albert Einstein</p>http://tomppi.tumblr.com/post/6804491752http://tomppi.tumblr.com/post/6804491752Thu, 23 Jun 2011 00:20:00 +0300<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ln7n47ypn51qlystxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the the universe.”</p> <p>- Albert Einstein</p>http://tomppi.tumblr.com/post/6802410316http://tomppi.tumblr.com/post/6802410316Thu, 23 Jun 2011 00:16:55 +0300<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ln7mtwXedj1qlystxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><span class="single_quote">“It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.”</span></p> <p><span class="single_quote">- </span>Thomas Jefferson, (letter to Rev. James Madison, July 19, 1788)</p>http://tomppi.tumblr.com/post/6802289550http://tomppi.tumblr.com/post/6802289550Thu, 23 Jun 2011 00:10:45 +0300<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ln5w0o2ouz1qlystxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>“The word god is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) change this.”<br/><br/>- Albert Einstein in a letter to philosopher Eric Gutkind, January 3, 1954</p>http://tomppi.tumblr.com/post/6769825261http://tomppi.tumblr.com/post/6769825261Wed, 22 Jun 2011 01:34:00 +0300<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ln5w0a6Yh71qlystxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”</p> <p>- Albert Einstein</p>http://tomppi.tumblr.com/post/6769819767http://tomppi.tumblr.com/post/6769819767Wed, 22 Jun 2011 01:33:00 +0300<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ln5vityths1qlystxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>“A man’s ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.”</p> <p>- Albert Einstein</p>http://tomppi.tumblr.com/post/6769547903http://tomppi.tumblr.com/post/6769547903Wed, 22 Jun 2011 01:23:00 +0300<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ln5vju2JL71qlystxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>“Religion is a by-product of fear. For much of human history, it may have been a necessary evil, but why was it more evil than necessary? Isn’t killing people in the name of God a pretty good definition of insanity?”</p> <p>- Arthur C. Clarke</p>http://tomppi.tumblr.com/post/6769567261http://tomppi.tumblr.com/post/6769567261Wed, 22 Jun 2011 01:23:00 +0300<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ln5vjesUK71qlystxo1_500.gif"/><br/><br/><p>“Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.”</p> <p>- Buddha (Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta, the founder of Buddhism, 563-483 B.C.)</p>http://tomppi.tumblr.com/post/6769558583http://tomppi.tumblr.com/post/6769558583Wed, 22 Jun 2011 01:23:00 +0300<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ln7n6eDg5T1qlystxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>“What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof”</p> <p>- Christopher Hitchens</p>http://tomppi.tumblr.com/post/6802435631http://tomppi.tumblr.com/post/6802435631Tue, 21 Jun 2011 00:18:00 +0300