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The whole point of faith, in fact, is to believe regardless of the evidence, which is the very antithesis of science.
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People believe in God because we are pattern-seeking, storytelling, mythmaking, religious, moral animals.
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Play hard, work hard, love hard. . . .The bottom line for me is to live life to the fullest in the…
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As Karl Marx once noted: 'Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He forgot…
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Science is a set of methods designed to describe and interpret observed or inferred phenomenon, past or present, and aimed at building…
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Remember always that we are pattern-seeking primates who are especially adept at finding patterns with emotional meaning.
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The concept of God is generated by a brain designed by evolution to find design in nature (a very recursive idea).
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Believing that the rustle in the grass is a dangerous predator when it is only the wind does not cost much, but…
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Scientists like Bjorn Lomborg in The Skeptical Environmentalist have, in my opinion, properly nailed environmental extremists for these exaggerated scenarios.
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Because of the complexity of the problem, environmental skepticism was once tenable. No longer. It is time to flip from skepticism to…
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Rationality tied to moral decency is the most powerful joint instrument for good that our planet has ever known.
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The actual atoms and molecules that make up my brain and body today are not the same ones that I was born…
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It must be conceded that a theory has an important advantage if its basic concepts and fundamental hypotheses are 'close to experience,'…
— Albert Einstein
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There is a reward structure in science that is very interesting: Our highest honors go to those who disprove the findings of…
— Carl Sagan
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There is not a single contemporary historical mention of Jesus, not by Romans or by Jews, not by believers or by unbelievers,…
— Dan Barker
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There is no logical impossibility in the hypothesis that the world sprang into being five minutes ago, exactly as it then was,…
— Bertrand Russell
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I can envision observations and experiments that would disprove any evolutionary theory I know.
— Stephen Jay Gould
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Cats were put into the world to disprove the dogma that all things were created to serve man.
— Paul Gray
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Many 'hard' scientists regard the term 'social science' as an oxymoron. Science means hypotheses you can test, and prove or disprove. Social…
— Michael Kinsley
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The Union was formed by the voluntary agreement of the States; and these, in uniting together, have not forfeited their Nationality, nor…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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There is a school of thought that believes that sleep is for the night. You appear to be out to disprove them.
— Alan Ayckbourn
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It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained. If, to…
— George Washington
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Even if evolution were true, it wouldn't disprove God. God has performed more spectacular feats than evolution. It's not even a daunting…
— Ann Coulter
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To succeed with the opposite sex, tell her you're impotent. She can't wait to disprove it.
— Cary Grant
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