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My concern with religion is that it allows us by the millions to believe what only lunatics or idiots could believe on…
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While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has…
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As an atheist, I am angry that we live in a society in which the plain truth cannot be spoken without offending…
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It's not so much religion per se, it's false certainty that worries me, and religion just has more than its fair share…
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Spiritual life can certainly follow the pattern one sees in the fake martial arts, with most teachers making nebulous and magical claims…
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Everything we do is for the purpose of altering consciousness. We form friendships so that we can feel certain emotions, like love,…
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I consistently encounter people in academic settings and scientists and journalists who feel that you can't say that anyone is wrong in…
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Many scientists have been drawn to Buddhism out of a sense that the Western tradition has delivered an impoverished conception of basic,…
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Science is the most durable and nondivisive way of thinking about the human circumstance. It transcends cultural, national, and political boundaries. You…
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To speak specifically of our problem with the Muslim world, we are meandering into a genuine clash of civilizations, and we're deluding…
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Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.
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There's no way to reconcile Islam with Christianity. This difference of opinion admits of compromise as much as a coin toss does.
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Shaped a little like a loaf of French country bread, our brain is a crowded chemistry lab, bustling with nonstop neural conversations.Imagine…
— Diane Ackerman
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As long as our brain is a mystery, the universe, the reflection of the structure of the brain will also be a…
— Santiago Ramon y Cajal
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We learn in our guts, not just in our brain, that a life of joy is not in seeking happiness, but in…
— Joko Beck
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Color is the place where our brain and the universe meet.
— Paul Klee
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In proportion to our body mass, our brain is three times as large as that of our nearest relatives. This huge organ…
— Susan Blackmore
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Reading is at the center of our lives. The library is our brain. Without the library, you have no civilization.
— Ray Bradbury
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It (LSD) opened my eyes. We only use one-tenth of our brain. Just think of what we could accomplish if we could…
— Paul McCartney
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Our main reproductive organ is our brain.
— Molly Kelly
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If we reason, we would be understood; if we imagine, we would that the airy children of our brain were born anew…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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The outsourcing of our memory to machines expands the amount of data to which we have access, but degrades our brain’s own…
— Douglas Rushkoff
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I believe that there is something far nobler than loyalty to any particular man. Loyalty to the truth as we perceive it…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Now, why is it that most of us can talk openly about the illnesses of our bodies, but when it comes to…
— Kirk Douglas
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