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- 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.
- Any entity capable of intelligently designing something as improbable as Dutchman's Pipe (or a universe) would have to be even more improbable than a Dutchman's…
- Such a bandwidth! God, who may not have a brain made of neurons, or a CPU made of silicon, but if he has the powers…
- Next time that somebody tells you something is true, why not say to them: 'What kind of evidence is there for that?' And if they…
- There's nothing nonsensical about saying that what would evolve if Darwinian selection has its head is something that you don't want to happen. And I…
- A child is not a Christian child, not a Muslim child, but a child of Christian parents or a child of Muslim parents. This latter…
- The patient typically finds himself impelled by some deep, inner conviction that something is true, or right, or virtuous: a conviction that doesn't seem to…
- A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence.
- Something pretty mysterious had to give rise to the origin of the universe.
- I do disapprove very strongly of labelling children, especially young children, as something like 'Catholic children' or 'Protestant children' or 'Islamic children.'
- I think looking back to my own childhood, the fact that so many of the stories I read allowed the possibility of frogs turning into…
- Alister McGrath has now written two books with my name in the title. The poet W. B. Yeats, when asked to say something about bad…
- There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point… The truly adult view, by…
- Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because…
- If you're an atheist, you know, you believe, this is the only life you're going to get. It's a precious life. It's a beautiful life.…
- There are all sorts of things that would be comforting. I expect an injection of morphine would be comforting... But to say that something is…
- Religious faith, is a state of mind, that leads people to believe in something, it doesn't matter what, without a whisper of doubt, or a…
- You can make some inferences about a man's character if you know something about the conditions in which he has survived and prospered.
- Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.
- The atheist view is correspondingly life-affirming and life-enhancing, while at the same time never being tainted with self-delusion, wishful thinking, or the whingeing self-pity of…
- If you don't understand how something works, never mind: just give up and say God did it. You don't know how the nerve impulse works?…
- If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it.
- Mystics exult in mystery and want it to stay mysterious. Scientists exult in mystery for a different reason: It gives them something to do.
- Although many of us fear death, I think there is something illogical about it.
- Something about the cultural tradition of Jews is way, way more sympathetic to science and learning and intellectual pursuits than Islam.
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- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D. — J. J. Abrams
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous. — J. J. Abrams
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail. — Giorgio Armani
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach
- The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage of. — J. J. Abrams
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