"I have absolutely no desire to change VMI or to be a poster child for feminists in America." - Melissa Williams, member of the first coed class at the Virginia Military Institute

“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.” - Galileo Galilei

"It does me no harm for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." - Thomas Jefferson

"Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other 'sins' are invented nonsense." - Robert A. Heinlein

“No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytising faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome.” - Winston Churchill

"The last place we can be as a party is be viewed as the anti-science party. That's not a model for the future." - Gov. Jon Huntsman (R)-Utah

"Growing up in a school teacher's house with a science teacher as a dad, I have great respect for evolution being taught in our science classes." - Gov. Sarah Palin (R)-Alaska

"I think every good Christian ought to kick Jerry Falwell right in the ass." - Sen. Barry Goldwater (R)-Arizona