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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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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
— Josh Billings
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For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a…
— Wernher von Braun
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A telescope will magnify a star a thousand times, but a good press agent can do even better.
— Fred Allen
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It is impossible not to feel stirred at the thought of the emotions of man at certain historic moments of adventure and…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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If aliens are watching us through telescopes, they're going to think the dogs are the leaders of the planet. If you see…
— Jerry Seinfeld
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We know there are billions of stars and planets literally out there, and the universe is getting bigger. We know from our…
— William J. Clinton
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'As a fraction of your tax dollar today, what is the total cost of all spaceborne telescopes, planetary probes, the rovers on…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Countless women are alive today because of ideas stimulated by a design flaw in the Hubble Space Telescope.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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I therefore concluded, and decided unhesitatingly, that there are three stars in the heavens moving about Jupiter, as Venus and Mercury about…
— Galileo Galilei
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With increasing distance, our knowledge fades, and fades rapidly. Eventually, we reach the dim boundary-the utmost limits of our telescopes. There, we…
— Edwin Powell Hubble
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