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- Science, as opposed to technology, does violence to common sense.
- Evolution is a fact, as securely established as any in science, and he who denies it betrays woeful ignorance and lack of education, which likely…
- Science shares with religion the claim that it answers deep questions about origins, the nature of life, and the cosmos. But there the resemblance ends.…
- To an honest judge, the alleged convergence between religion and science is a shallow, empty, hollow, spin-doctored sham.
- In childhood our credulity serves us well. It helps us to pack, with extraordinary rapidity, our skulls full of the wisdom of our parents and…
- Not only is science corrosive to religion, but religion is corrosive to science. It teaches people to be satisfied with trivial non-explanations and blinds them…
- Let's get up off our knees, stop cringing before bogeymen and virtual fathers, face reality, and help science to do something constructive about human suffering.
- [Creationists have] lost in the courts of law; they've long ago lost in the halls of science; and they continue to lose with every new…
- Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings.
- Religion ends and philosophy begins, just as alchemy ends and chemistry begins, and astrology ends and astronomy begins.
- As a scientist, I am hostile to fundamentalist religion because it actively debauches the scientific enterprise. It teaches us not to change our minds, and…
- The trouble with conspiracies, even those that are to everybody's advantage in the long run, is that they are open to abuse. If manipulators really…
- If you want to do evil, science provides the most powerful weapons to do evil; but equally, if you want to do good, science puts…
- The history of science has been one long series of violent brainstorms, as successive generations have come to terms with increasing levels of queerness in…
- Science offers us an explanation of how complexity (the difficult) arose out of simplicity (the easy). The hypothesis of God offers no worthwhile explanation for…
- The popularity of the paranormal, oddly enough, might even be grounds for encouragement. I think that the appetite for mystery, the enthusiasm for that which…
- Scientific and technological progress themselves are value-neutral. They are just very good at doing what they do. If you want to do selfish, greedy, intolerant…
- Chaos theory, a more recent invention, is equally fertile ground for those with a bent for abusing sense. It is unfortunately named, for 'chaos' implies…
- Quantum mechanics, that brilliantly successful flagship theory of modern science, is deeply mysterious and hard to understand. Eastern mystics have always been deeply mysterious and…
- Science ha seradicated smallpox, can immunise against most previously deadly viruses, can kill most previously deadly bacteria. Theology has done nothing but talk of pestilence…
- Religions are not imaginative, not poetic, not soulful. On the contrary, they are parochial, small-minded, niggardly with the human imagination, precisely where science is generous.
- It is possible to enjoy the Mozart concerto without being able to play the clarinet. In fact, you can learn to be an expert connoisseur…
- Religious people split into three main groups when faced with science. I shall label them the "know-nothings", the "know-alls", and the "no-contests."
- The physicist's problem is the problem of ultimate origins and ultimate natural laws. The biologist's problem is the problem of complexity.
- Cheetah genes cooperate with cheetah genes but not with camel genes, and vice versa. This is not because cheetah genes, even in the most poetic…
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