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- Certainly I see the scientific view of the world as incompatible with religion, but that is not what is interesting about it. It is also…
- I am very hostile to religion because it is enormously dominant, especially in American life. And I don't buy the argument that, well, it's harmless.…
- I do think the Roman Catholic religion is a disease of the mind which has a particular epidemiology similar to that of a virus... Religion…
- It is quite true that many scientists, many physicists, maintain that the physical constants, the half dozen or so numbers that physicists have to simply…
- 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…
- I don't want to sound callous. I mean, even if I have nothing to offer, that doesn't matter, because that still doesn't mean that what…
- 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…
- In true natural selection, if a body has what it takes to survive, its genes automatically survive because they are inside it. So the genes…
- If you are religious at all, it is overwhelmingly probable that your religion is that of your parents. If you were born in Arkansas and…
- How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the true…
- The true scientific understanding of the nature of existence is so utterly fascinating; how could you not want people to share it? Carl Sagan, I…
- Even if it were true that we need God to be moral, it would of course not make God's existence more likely, merely more desirable…
- A delusion that encourages belief where there is no evidence is asking for trouble. Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by reasoned argument because…
- My passion is for scientific truth. I don't much care about good and evil. ... I care about what's true.
- Maybe scientists are fundamentalist when it comes to defining in some abstract way what is meant by 'truth'. But so is everybody else. I am…
- 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…
- What has 'theology' ever said that is of the smallest use to anybody? When has 'theology' ever said anything that is demonstrably true and is…
- Scientists disagree among themselves but they never fight over their disagreements. They argue about evidence or go out and seek new evidence. Much the same…
- Even if it were true that evolution, or the teaching of evolution, encouraged immorality that would not imply that the theory of evolution was false.
- The book is true, and if evidence seems to condtradict it, it is the evidence that must be thrown out not the book.
- Isaac Asimov's remark about the infantilism of pseudoscience is just as applicable to religion: 'Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security…
- 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…
- Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.
- There is a popular cliché ... which says that you cannot get out of computers any more than you have put in..., that computers can…
- If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it.
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- I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original. — Aaliyah
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- True information does good. — Julian Assange
- Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar. — Nnamdi Azikiwe
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach
- Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the… — Karen Armstrong
- True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge… — Arthur Ashe
- The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing. — Isaac Asimov
- Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe… — Margaret Atwood