Quote of the Day for 2016-08-29

"If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. And if I have the gift of prophecy and I know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains but have not love, I am nothing. And if I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profiteth me nothing."

— Paul the Apostle (cira 5-67 CE) First letter to the Corinthians, chapter 13 (circa 53-57 CE) translation from the English Revised Version (1881)

The Siege of Acre by Dominique Papety (circa 1840)

Quote of the Day for 2016-08-14

"The liberty of man is not safe in the hands of any church. Wherever the Bible and sword are in partnership, man is a slave."

— Robert G. Ingersoll (1833-1899) Some Mistakes of Moses, chapter 3 (1879)

"Moment of Joy" cover by Jack Hunter for The New Yorker (July 8 & 15, 2013) after the Supreme Court ruled against DOMA and Proposition 8 (June 26, 2013)

Quote of the Day for 2016-05-29

"Every great scientific truth goes through three stages. First, people say it conflicts with the Bible. Next they say it had been discovered before. Lastly they say they always believed it."

— Louis Agassiz (1807-1873) Quoted in Harper's Bazaar (August 6, 1870)

Galileo facing the Roman Inquisition by Cristiano Banti (1857)