“Just one thing gives me hope, and that is the steady trickle of emails I receive on the subject from children, ecstatic with delight at the stupidity of their teachers: I’d like to submit to Bad Science my teacher who gave us a handout which says that ‘Water is best absorbed by the body when … More Quote of the Day

“Trump is vulgarity unbounded, a knowledge-free national leader who will not only set markets tumbling but will strike fear into the hearts of the vulnerable, the weak, and, above all, the many varieties of Other whom he has so deeply insulted. The African-American Other. The Hispanic Other. The female Other. The Jewish and Muslim Other.”–David … More Quote of the Day

“Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.” ― Gore Vidal

“People keep saying ‘science doesn’t know everything!’ Well, science ‘knows’ it doesn’t know everything; otherwise it would stop.”—Dara Ó Briain

“The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.” ― Karl Marx

“Historians are to nationalism what poppy-growers in Pakistan are to heroin-addicts: we supply the essential raw material for the market.” ― Eric Hobsbawm

“It’s freezing and snowing in New York. We need global warming!”–Donald Trump

“The atheist staring from his attic window is often nearer to God than the believer caught up in his own false image of God.” ― Martin Buber

“We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. … More Quote of the Day