“It is a change of approach that is much needed, study based on observa...” — C.J. Sansom Quote

“It is a change of approach that is much needed, study based on observation, not merely acceptance of blind doctrine.”

“Have you ever thought what a God would be like who actually ordained and executed the cruelty that is in [the biblical Book of Revelation]? A holocaust of mankind. Yet so many of these Bible-men accept the idea without a second thought.”

“St Gregory of Nyssa once said All the arts and sciences have their roots in the struggle against death.”

“God: "I did not take Eloise out of the world. Why should your life be more important than hers?”

“I continued to pray. I did not want to but felt it was important; oddly enough it was an achor to the real world, which was slipping out of focus for me.”

“Many [Tudor-era religious radicals] believed then, exactly as Christian fundamentalists do today, that they lived in the 'last days' before Armageddon and, again just as now, saw signs all around in the world that they took as certain proof that the Apocalypse was imminent. Again like fundamentalists today, they looked on the prospect of the violent destruction of mankind without turning a hair. The remarkable similarity between the first Tudor Puritans and the fanatics among today's Christian fundamentalists extends to their selective reading of the Bible, their emphasis on the Book of Revelation, their certainty of their rightness, even to their phraseology. Where the Book of Revelation is concerned, I share the view of Guy, that the early church fathers released something very dangerous on the world when, after much deliberation, they decided to include it in the Christian canon.”

“Change is the hallmark of nature. Nothing stays the same.”

“The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.”

“It would be better for us to have some doubts in an honest pursuit of truth, than it would be for us to be certain about something that was not true.”

“I can feel my hopes rising,”

“The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.”

“I think we have different value systems." —Arthur”