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My concern with religion is that it allows us by the millions to believe what only lunatics or idiots could believe on…
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While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has…
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As an atheist, I am angry that we live in a society in which the plain truth cannot be spoken without offending…
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It's not so much religion per se, it's false certainty that worries me, and religion just has more than its fair share…
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Spiritual life can certainly follow the pattern one sees in the fake martial arts, with most teachers making nebulous and magical claims…
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Everything we do is for the purpose of altering consciousness. We form friendships so that we can feel certain emotions, like love,…
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I consistently encounter people in academic settings and scientists and journalists who feel that you can't say that anyone is wrong in…
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Many scientists have been drawn to Buddhism out of a sense that the Western tradition has delivered an impoverished conception of basic,…
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Science is the most durable and nondivisive way of thinking about the human circumstance. It transcends cultural, national, and political boundaries. You…
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To speak specifically of our problem with the Muslim world, we are meandering into a genuine clash of civilizations, and we're deluding…
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Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.
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There's no way to reconcile Islam with Christianity. This difference of opinion admits of compromise as much as a coin toss does.
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If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology…
— John Burroughs
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Truth is verifiable only by identity with it and not by knowing about it.
— David Hawkins
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Any one who has studied the history of science knows that almost every great step therein has been made by the "anticipation…
— Thomas Huxley
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Stripped of all its outer encrustations, spirituality emerges as a science, as scientific as any other, as verifiable in its results. Let…
— Kirpal Singh
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Without approval and without scorn, but carefully studying the sentences word by word, one should trace them in the Discourses and verify…
— Gautama Buddha
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The effect on human consciousness of the experience of the Presence of God is subjectively transformative and identical throughout human history. It…
— David Hawkins
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The fact that a theory so vague, so insufficiently verifiable, and so far from the criteria otherwise applied in 'hard' science has…
— Ludwig von Bertalanffy
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I mean, Jesus was a white man too. He was a historical figure — that's a verifiable fact.
— Megyn Kelly
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The work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires…
— Michael Crichton
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On the question of whether a behavioral science can in principle be constructed, we shall take no sides. That some kinds of…
— Anatol Rapoport
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Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason…
— Remy de Gourmont
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There is no sign, not one sign, that the Iraqi regime has any intent to comply fully with the terms of Resolution…
— Richard Armitage
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