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Religion Quotes by Stephen Jay Gould
- Odd arrangements and funny solutions are the proof of evolution - paths that a sensible God would never tread but that a natural process, constrained…
- [Evolution is] one of the best documented, most compelling and exciting concepts in all of science.
- Human life is the result of a glorious evolutionary accident.
- If there is any consistent enemy of science, it is not religion, but irrationalism.
- I am not, personally, a believer or a religious man in any sense of institutional commitment or practice. But I have a great respect for…
- When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown.
- In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might…
- The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions…
- Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty.
- We are here because one odd group of fishes had a peculiar fin anatomy that could transform into legs for terrestrial creatures; because the earth…
- Our creationist detractors charge that evolution is an unproved and unprovable charade-a secular religion masquerading as science. They claim, above all, that evolution generates no…
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- Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants… — Karen Armstrong
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- Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. — Isaac Asimov
- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words. — Francis of Assisi