Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies - god damn it, you've got to be kind.' Kurt Vonnegut. Author and humanist.
Humanist and author Kurt Vonnegut died #OnThisDay 2007. So it goes.
Here's Kurt on the humanist approach to life, as featured in #TheLittleBookofHumanism ❤️
I'd rather be a rising ape than a falling angel. Terry Pratchett.
GNU Terry Pratchett.
We love this distinctly Pratchett quote, as featured in #TheLittleBookofHumanism.
'I'd rather be a rising ape than a falling angle.'
Terry Pratchett – author and humanist.
#GNUTerryPratchett #TerryPratchett
Humanists UK Logo. Picture of Kurt Vonnegut. Quote: 'Hello babies. Welcome to earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know o it, babies - god damn it, you've got to be kind.' Kurt Vonnegut. Author and humanist.
Humanist and author Kurt Vonnegut was born on this day 1922.
Here's Kurt on the humanist approach to life, as featured in #TheLittleBookofHumanism ❤️
And of course, we have to include Juno. Our Chief Executive, @andrewcopson.bsky.social 's dog! Here's Juno doing her part to promote #TheLittleBookofHumanism. #Internationaldogday
Terry Pratchett, patron of @humanists.uk died #OnThisDay in 2015. As he said, ‘No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away.’ As a campaigner, thinker, and creator of worlds, he will live long. #thelittlebookofhumanism @profaliceroberts.bsky.social
We could never have loved the Earth so well if we had had no childhood in it, if it were not the Earth where the same flowers comes up against every spring that we used to gather with our tiny fingers as we sat lisping on ourselves on the grass.
Here's a lovely quote by humanist favourite George Eliot about a love of nature, taken from her novel The Mill on the Floss. It features in #TheLittleBookofHumanism! She was born #OnThisDay 1819.
From now until Christmas I'll be doing my own little advent calendar using pages from the Little Book series, co-written with Alice Roberts. Day 1, my all-time favourite humanist, the wonderful George Eliot 🎄🤶🎁 #thelittlebookofhumanism
Inspiring words by the humanist & astronomer Carl Sagan, born #onthisday in 1934. Featured in #TheLittleBookofHumanism
