This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
The thoughts we think of and the things we make are under our control, that we can manipulate them at will. The evidence seems to suggest the contrary. The information we generate has a life of its own, and its existence is sometimes symbiotic, sometimes parasitic, relative to ours.... It doesn’t seem that memes are any more dependent on their environment than we are.
Control | Evidence | Existence | Life | Life | Will | Think |
Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to error that counts.
There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity.
Esteem | Evidence | Generosity | Kindness | Respect | Self | Self-esteem | Will |
Every absurdity has a champion to defend it; for error is always talkative.
Atheism is a disease of the soul, before it becomes an error of the understanding.
Atheism | Disease | Error | Soul | Understanding |
Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
Error | Religion | Science | Superstition |
Our dissatisfaction with any other solution is the blazing evidence of immortality.
Evidence | Immortality |
It is neither possible for man to know the truth fully nor to avoid the error of pretending that he does.
The blazing evidence of immortality is our dissatisfaction with any other solution.
Evidence | Immortality |
We should never allow ourselves to be persuaded excepting by the evidence of our Reason, of our Reason and not our imagination nor of our senses.
Evidence | Imagination | Reason |
The highest and most profitable learning is the knowledge of ourselves. To have a low opinion of our own merits, and to think highly of others, is an evidence of wisdom. All men are frail, but thou shouldst reckon none so frail as thyself.
Evidence | Knowledge | Learning | Men | Opinion | Wisdom | Think |
It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That process undoubtedly involves a constant remodeling of the organism in adaption to new conditions; but it depends on the nature of those conditions whether the direction of the modifications effected shall be upward or downward.
Error | Evolution | Nature | Perfection |
The error of our eye directs our mind: what error leads must err.
What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
Evidence |
Having seen how many follow and have followed false religions, and having our reason utterly against many of the principal points of the Bible, we require the most perfect evidence of facts, before we can believe. If you can prove to me that one miracle took place, I will believe that he is a just God who damned us all because a woman ate an apple; and you can't expect greater complaisance than that to be sure.