Gad Saad Quotes

Science and reason liberate us from the shackles of superstition by offering us a framework for understanding our shared humanity. Ultimately, we all have the capacity to treasure life and enrich the world in incalculable ways.

Gad Saad

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• Humanity
• Atheist
• Superstitions
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• There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • You
  • Reason
  • Years

• Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Important
  • Future
  • Lost

• Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Technology
  • Humanity
  • Wrong

• The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Reason
  • Need
  • Made

• Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Faith
  • Reason
  • Blind

• A society that admits misery, a humanity that admits war, seem to me an inferior society and a debased humanity; it is a higher society and a more elevated humanity at which I am aiming - a society without kings, a humanity without barriers.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • War
  • Society
  • Humanity

• What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

  

  Ovid
  • Reason
  • Now
  • Instinct

• The third umpires should be changed as often as nappies and for the same reason.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Reason
  • Same
  • Often

• Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking, and others have stated that they think AI is an existential risk. I disagree. I don't see a risk to humanity of a 'Terminator' scenario or anything of the sort.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Think
  • Humanity
  • Risk

• Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Reason
  • Step
  • Where

• That cry of the soul to be lifted out of the bondage of the narrow circle of life, which carries up to God the protest and yearning of suffering man, never finds a more sublime expression than where humanity is oppressed and religion is corrupt.

  

  Hall Caine
  • Life
  • Up
  • God

• Rage only works if it is justified. That's the trick with rage. You gotta have a reason to be mad.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Reason
  • Mad
  • Rage

• For it is extremely absurd to expect to be enlightened by reason, and yet to prescribe to her beforehand on which side she must incline.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Reason
  • Incline

• Cultural and ethnic diversity benefit humanity’s future, survival, strength and excellence, promoting what I call cultural vigour, similar to the way in which molecular and genetic diversity promote 'hybrid vigor' in nature and thus strength, resilience and a higher potential for a problem-free future.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Nature
  • Future
  • Free

• Kids born today will see us navigate past the first greatest test of humanity, which is: can we actually be smart enough to live on a planet without destroying it?

  

  Alex Steffen
  • Live
  • Kids
  • Today

• The reason that gets me is, and the greatest part of my job and what I do, is the humanity of it and there’s certain moments where that really cuts through.

  

  Kylie Minogue
  • Job
  • Moments
  • Humanity

• I went on a Buddha jag. I read 'Confession of a Buddhist Atheist' by Stephen Batchelor and Karen Armstrong's biography of Buddha, which is a great book.

  

  Denis O'Hare
  • Great
  • Book
  • Atheist

• Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.

  

  Jean Paul
  • Beautiful
  • Humanity
  • Forgiveness

• Because of their courage and persistence for many years, we can, today, even set the dates when all humanity will join together to celebrate one of the outstanding human victories of our century. When that moment comes, we shall, together, rejoice in a common victory over racism, apartheid and white minority rule.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • Together
  • Today
  • Humanity

• Reason is the slow and torturous method by which those who do not know the truth discover it.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Reason
  • Discover
  • Torturous

• In the name of justice there cannot be subjection and in the name of peace there cannot be impunity.

  

  Alvaro Uribe
  • Peace
  • Justice

• I can't keep myself from playing roles. The emotionless decadent, looking for diversion from boredom, is a favorite.

  

  Ellen Willis

• I've always been an outsider. I am an outsider in Garbage. I'm the odd one out by default.

  

  Shirley Ann Manson Angelfish
  • Odd
  • Outsiders
  • Default

• Science and reason liberate us from the shackles of superstition by offering us a framework for understanding our shared humanity. Ultimately, we all have the capacity to treasure life and enrich the world in incalculable ways.

  

  Gad Saad
  • Reason
  • Humanity
  • Atheist