Citations:bright

English citations of bright

Adjective: intelligent

• 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
  Episode 16

  --Ah, God, Corley replied, sure I couldn't teach in a school, man. I was never one of your bright ones, he added with a half laugh.

Noun: non-supernaturalist

• 2003 May 24, Paul Geisert, Mynga Futrell, “The Brights”, in The Brights' Net‎^[1], archived from the original on 2003-05-24:

  A Bright's worldview is free of supernatural and mystical elements. The ethics and actions of a Bright are based on a naturalistic worldview.

• 2003 June 20, Richard Dawkins, “The future looks bright”, in The Guardian‎^[2], →ISSN:

  Brights constitute 60% of American scientists, and a stunning 93% of those scientists good enough to be elected to the elite National Academy of Sciences (equivalent to Fellows of the Royal Society) are brights.

• 2003 July 12, Daniel C. Dennett, “The Bright Stuff”, in The New York Times‎^[3], →ISSN:

  The time has come for us brights to come out of the closet.

• 2003 Fall, Michael Shermer, “The big "bright" brouhaha: an empirical study on an emerging skeptical movement”, in Skeptic, volume 10, number 3, →ISSN:

  At a June conference in Seattle for gifted high school students at which both Dennett and I spoke about being nonbelievers and brights, there was an enthusiastic reception that generated a buzz among both students and speakers the rest of the weekend.

• 2003 November, Cullen Murphy, “The Path of Brighteousness”, in The Atlantic‎^[4], →ISSN:

  And there is the telltale denominational urge to count the saved: in a New York Times op-ed article the bright philosopher Daniel Dennett put the number of brights in America at 27 million or more (which would place them below Catholics and Baptists in membership but well above Methodists and Lutherans).

• 2006 February 2, Daniel C. Dennett, Breaking the Spell: Religion As a Natural Phenomenon, New York: Viking, →ISBN, →OL, page 27:

  Many of us brights have devoted considerable time and energy at some point in our lives to looking at the arguments for and against the existence of God, and many brights continue to pursue these issues, hacking away vigorously at the arguments of believers as if they were trying to refute a rival scientific theory.

• 2006 February 19, Leon Wieseltier, “The God Genome”, in The New York Times‎^[5], →ISSN:

  Brights are not only intellectually better, they are also ethically better.

• 2007 October 16, Dinesh D'Souza, What's So Great About Christianity, Washington, DC: Regnery, →ISBN, →OL, page 22:

  Brights and other nonbelievers are not impressed with the growth of religious belief around the world.

• 2008 March 17, David Aikman, The Delusion of Disbelief: Why the New Atheism Is a Threat to Your Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of Happiness, Carol Stream: Tyndale House Publishers, →ISBN, →OL, page 28:

  Dawkins has received appreciative letters from people who were formerly what he derisively calls "faith-heads" who have abandoned their delusions and come over to the side of the brights, the pleasant green pastures where clear-eyed, brave, bold, and supremely brainy atheists graze contentedly.

• 2008 August 5, Michael Novak, No One Sees God: The Dark Night of Atheists and Believers‎^[6], New York: Doubleday, →ISBN, →OL, ch. 7:

  But this creates a problem for the brights' metaphysical claim, namely, that all reality is exhausted when we know what is verified by scientific method.

• 2011 September, Nelson Tebbe, “Nonbelievers”, in Virginia Law Review, volume 97, number 5, →ISSN, →JSTOR, page 1114:

  Does our legal regime therefore exclude Americans who distance themselves from traditional religious beliefs and institutions, including atheists, agnostics, secular humanists, brights, and freethinkers?