Paul Kurtz
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"Paul Kurtz" was a prominent American Scientific skepticism/skeptic and Secular humanism/secular humanist. He has been called "the father of secular humanism". He was Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York/State University of New York at Buffalo, having previously also taught at Vassar, Trinity, and Union colleges, and the New School for Social Research.

Kurtz founded the publishing house Prometheus Books in 1969. He was also the founder and past chairman of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (formerly the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP)), the Council for Secular Humanism, and the Center for Inquiry. He was editor in chief of Free Inquiry magazine, a publication of the Council for Secular Humanism.

He was co-chair of the International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) from 1986 to 1994. He was a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Humanist Laureate, president of the International Academy of Humanism and Honorary Associate of Rationalist International. As a member of the American Humanist Association, he contributed to the writing of Humanist Manifesto II. He was an editor of The Humanist, 1967–78.

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Calling for stronger security in the context of terrorism is a mistake. I think it is a mistake because the implication is that it is the government's responsibility to solve the problem. The government can?t defend all these networks.

We want to keep fine-tuning.

Most humans feel the transcendent temptation, the emotional drive to festoon the universe with large-scale meaning.

We were under a little more pressure tonight. Springfield is a pretty fair team but we held up well.

We didn't pass all that well but we still got the win. We've got a big one coming up so we'll have to play our best Thursday.

We passed better today than we did in our best game last year.

We thought we were prepared, ... I think we could have gone all the way.

They're the eighth-ranked team in the state. To us, it was a match where we had nothing to lose. I think we rattled their cage. I don't think we should hang our heads.

It was a good day for us. It is pretty encouraging to go on from here.