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> [My mother attended the local church, Saint Nicolas, and consequently, I attended that church and its Sunday School. My only prizes from the Sunday School were 'for attendance,' so I presume my atheism, which developed when I left home to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-smith/my-mother-attended-the-local-church-saint-nicolas-and-consequently-i/)

[Michael Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-smith/)

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## More by Michael Smith

> [In 1986, I was asked by the then-Dean of Science at the University of British Columbia, Dr. R.C. Miller, Jr., to establish a new…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-smith/in-1986-i-was-asked-by-the-then-dean-of-science-at-the-university-of/)

[Michael Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-smith/)

> [My mother attended the local church, Saint Nicolas, and consequently, I attended that church and its Sunday School. My only prizes from the Sunday…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-smith/my-mother-attended-the-local-church-saint-nicolas-and-consequently-i/)

[Michael Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-smith/)

> [I was not proficient in Latin and so was not able to go to Oxford or Cambridge. However, I did enter the first-rate chemistry…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-smith/i-was-not-proficient-in-latin-and-so-was-not-able-to-go-to-oxford-or/)

[Michael Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-smith/)

> [My parents, Mary Agnes Smith and Rowland Smith, both had to work since their early teens, she in the holiday boarding house of her…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-smith/my-parents-mary-agnes-smith-and-rowland-smith-both-had-to-work-since/)

[Michael Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-smith/)

> [We, Homo sapiens, destroyed the majority of the large mammalian species in North America and Australasia just over 10,000 years ago. We, Homo sapiens,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-smith/we-homo-sapiens-destroyed-the-majority-of-the-large-mammalian-species/)

[Michael Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-smith/)

> [“Cooper was frequently asked to take part in interrogations of pilots. The first time he did this, he and two other interrogators were sat…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-smith/cooper-was-frequently-asked-to-take-part-in-interrogations-of-pilots/)

[Michael Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-smith/)

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