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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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Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.
— Abu Bakr
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Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world.…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Suicidal thinking, if serious, can be a kind of death scare, comparable to suffering a heart attack or undergoing a cancer operation.…
— Edward Hoagland
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Do not despair of life. Think of the fox, prowling in a winter night to satisfy his hunger. His race survives; I…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing.
— Ayn Rand
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He, who survives his reputation, lives out of despite himself, like a man listening to his own reproach.
— Thomas Paine
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Old events have modern meanings; only that survives of past history which finds kindred in all hearts and lives.
— James Russell Lowell
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I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the kind that we experience…
— Albert Einstein
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Although I cannot believe that the individual survives the death of his body, feeble souls harbor such thought through fear or ridiculous…
— Albert Einstein
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Civilization survives on the constant discovery of amity and an equal supply of damnation.
— Victor Hugo
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From the failure of the humanist tradition to participate fully or to act decisively, civilizations may perhaps crumble or perish at the…
— Louis Kronenberger
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The existence of the soldier, next to capital punishment, is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men.
— Alfred de Vigny
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