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title: "4 Science Believing Quotes by 4 authors"
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> [I don't understand why so many people who are sophisticated in science go on believing in God. I wish I did.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/i-don-t-understand-why-so-many-people-who-are-sophisticated-in/)

[Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/)

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> [The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/the-chief-difficulty-which-prevents-men-of-science-from-believing-in/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [The abuse of books kills science. Believing that we know what we have read, we believe that we can dispense with learning…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-jacques-rousseau/the-abuse-of-books-kills-science-believing-that-we-know-what-we-have/)

[Jean-Jacques Rousseau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-jacques-rousseau/)

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> [In a sense Shapley's telling me that space was transparent, which I shouldn't have believed, illustrates a fundamental problem in science, believing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jesse-l-greenstein/in-a-sense-shapley-s-telling-me-that-space-was-transparent-which-i/)

[Jesse L. Greenstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jesse-l-greenstein/)

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