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Carl Sagan “We’ve arranged a global civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible . . . → Read More: Quote: Carl Sagan “When the government puts its imprimatur on a particular religion it conveys a message of exclusion to all those who do not adhere to the favored beliefs. A government cannot be premised on the belief that all persons are created equal when it asserts that God prefers some.” ~~~ Harry A. Blackmun . . . → Read More: Quote: Harry A. Blackmun on government and religion “Religious institutions that use government power in support of themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths, or of no faith, undermine all our civil rights. Moreover, state support of an established religion tends to make the clergy unresponsive to their own people, and leads to corruption within religion itself. Erecting the ‘wall . . . → Read More: Quote: Thomas Jefferson on the ‘wall of separation’ “We in the United States, above all, must remember that lesson, for we were founded as a nation of openness to people of all beliefs. And so we must remain. Our very unity has been strengthened by our pluralism. We establish no religion in this country, we command no worship, we mandate no belief, nor . . . → Read More: Quote: Ronald Reagan on separation of church and state “I hold that in this country there must be complete severance of Church and State; that public moneys shall not be used for the purpose of advancing any particular creed; and therefore that public schools shall be non-sectarian and no public moneys appropriated for sectarian schools.” ~~~ Theodore Roosevelt, 1915 “Today, I want to talk about the work we have left to do to protect one group of people whose human rights are still denied in too many parts of the world today. In many ways, they are an invisible minority. They are arrested, beaten, terrorized, even executed. Many are treated with contempt and violence . . . → Read More: Quote: Hillary Rodham Clinton – 06 Dec. 2011 Critical thinking is defined by Michael Scriven and Richard Paul as … “…the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating information gathered from, or generated by, observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication, as a guide to belief and action.” Edward Glaser states that … The ability . . . → Read More: Critical thinking “Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never.” ~~~ Titus Livius, 59 BCE – CE 17 “Science is an integral part of culture. It’s not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It’s one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.” ~~~ Stephen Jay Gould “Driven from every other corner of the Earth, freedom of thought and the right of private judgment in matters of conscience, direct their course to this happy country as their last asylum.” ~~~ Samuel Adams |
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