I subscribe to the wikipedia daily article mailing list. It has an article of the day, several articles for events in history on this day, and then ends with a wikiquote.
Given the theme of my recent posts, I thought this Wikiquote was appropriate:
“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.” — Galileo Galilei
These quotes are usually a shaded reference to the news of the day. I’ll see if I can gather some examples, but many of these not-so-subtle hintings are quite humorous.
February 16th, 2006 at 7:15 am
That quote sums up my favorite philosophical response to the Intelligent Design people: that is, God created all the evidence for evolution; he gave us the faculties to appreciate it and the curiosity to discover it. Is he just a mean-spirited trickster, who then says Gotcha! Now you’ll burn!