What if God doesn't exist? What if humanity is not the center of the
universe? What if there is no absolute truth?
Here are some texts by free-thinking pioneers of our era that
address these questions.
ROGER BACON
Friar Bacon: His Discovery of the Miracles Of Art, Nature, And Magick
by Roger Bacon [1659].
GIORDANO BRUNO
The Heroic Enthusiasts
(Gli Eroici Furori)
L. Williams, tr. [1887 and 1889]
LEONARDO DA VINCI
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci
by Jean Paul Richter [1883]
THOMAS PAINE
The Age of Reason, introduction
The Age of Reason, part I
The Age of Reason, part II
An Essay on Dream
Biblical Blasphemy
Examination Of The Prophecies
CHARLES DARWIN
Origin of Species [1872]
The Descent of Man [1871]
Voyage of the Beagle [1909]
MARK TWAIN
What is Man
The War Prayer
Thou Shalt Not Kill
The Fly
Letters From The Earth [1909]
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL
Volume I: Lectures
Volume II: Lectures
CLARENCE DARROW
Facing Life Fearlessly
Absurdities of the Bible
Why I Am An Agnostic
ALBERT EINSTEIN
On prayer; purpose in nature; meaning of life; the soul; a personal God
Conversation on Religion and Antisemitism
Religion and Science
Elizabeth Cady Stanton: The Woman's Bible
About the graphic:
When Galileo turned his telescope on Jupiter, he
discovered that it has four moons which revolve around it.
From this he inferred that the Earth and the other
planets could revolve around the Sun. This was one of the
key discoveries which started an
intellectual revolution which resonates to this day.