However - Quotes
Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.
However many ways there may be of being alive, it is certain that there are vastly more ways of being dead, or rather not alive.
I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I`ll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it. The wilder and more ridiculous something is, however, the firmer and more solid the evidence will have to be.
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science? There isn't a religion on the planet that doesn't long for a comparable ability - precise, and repeatedly demonstrated before committed skeptics - to foretell future events. No other human institution comes close.