I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. (Galileo Galilei)

Facts are the enemy of truth. (Don Quixote – Man of La Mancha)

Many a man’s reputation would not know his character if they met onthe street. (Elbert Hubbard)

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed.Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as beingself-evident. (Arthur Schopenhauer)

Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer. (Saint Thomas Moore)