Quote of the Day… John Locke edition

“…that in a book, which was to provide Chains for all Mankind, I should find nothing but a Rope of Sand, useful perhaps to such, whose Skill and Business it is to raise a Dust, and would blind the People, the better to mislead them, but in truth is not of any force to draw them into Bondage, who have their Eyes open, and so much Sense about them as to consider, that Chains are but an ill wearing, how much Care soever hath been taken to file and polish them.”

- John Locke
Two Treatises of Government

Quote of the day. Carl Sagan Edition.

” The Earth is a place. It is by no means the only place. It is not even a typical place. No planet or star or galaxy can be typical, because the cosmos is mostly empty. The only typical place is within the vast, cold, universal vacuum, the everlasting night of intergalatic space, a place so strange and desolate that, by comparision, planets and stars and galaxies seem achingly rare and lovely. If we were randomly inserted into the cosmos, the chance that we would find ourselves on or near a planet would be less than one in a billion trillion trillion (10^33, a one followed by 33 zeros). In everyday life such odds are called compelling. Worlds are precious.”

- Carl Sagan, “Cosmos”

Want to argue some great points for atheism? Carl Sagan will always guide your hand.