"They said God was on high and he……" — Gene Roddenberry
"They said God was on high and he controlled the world and therefore we must pray against Satan. Well, if God controls the world, he controls Satan. For me, religion was full of misstatements and reaches of logic that I just couldn't agree with."
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48 Quotes by Gene Roddenberry
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Religions vary in their degree of idiocy, but I reject them all.
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I condemn false prophets, I condemn the effort to take away the power of rational decision, to drain people of…
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If this is your God, he's not very impressive. He has so many psychological problems; he's so insecure. He demands…
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The glory of creation is in its infinite diversity.
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For Star Trek proves, as faulty as individual episodes could be, is that the much-maligned common man and common woman…
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I believe in humanity. We are an incredible species. We're still just a child creature, we're still being nasty to…
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The Strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to…
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We have within reach, now, the attainment of almost every dream of mankind.
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For me science fiction is a way of thinking, a way of logic that bypasses a lot of nonsense. It…
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I think God is as much a basic ingredient in the universe as neutrons and positrons. This is the prime…
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You can't take this speck of dust in this midst of all this incredible panorama of birth and complexifying and…
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I have always been reasonably leery of religion because there are so many edicts in religion, 'thou shalt not,' or…
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