• Humanists believe that human experience and rational thinking provide the only source of both knowledge and a moral code to live by
• They reject the idea of knowledge 'revealed' to human beings by gods, or in special books
• Most humanists think science provides the only reliable source of knowledge about the universe. And people can live ethical and fulfilling lives without religious beliefs
• In 1952 at the first World Humanist Congress, the fundamentals of humanism were recorded in what the attendees described as the Amsterdam Declaration