It's Forty Two!

“Alcohol, the cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems.”

“It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.”

“Against logic there is no armour like ignorance.”

“Since the dawn of the internet, the Earth's rotation has been fueled by English teachers turning over in their graves.”

“It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.”

“Sceptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense.”

“The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.”

“In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.”

“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.”

“Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.”

“I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.”

“In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language.”

“In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination.”

“The man who doesn't read books has no advantage over the man who can't read.”

“Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.”

“The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.”

“From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.”

“Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying religion doesn't have its uses. Personally I turn to it whenever I want my intelligence insulted.”

“The future is always changing, and we're gonna have to live there, probably as soon as next week.”

“Scientists spent a huge amount of time and money looking for dark matter, before realizing it was the white pellets that all the equipment was packed in.”