"Religion ends and philosophy begins, just as alchemy……" — Richard Dawkins
"Religion ends and philosophy begins, just as alchemy ends and chemistry begins, and astrology ends and astronomy begins."
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530 Quotes by Richard Dawkins
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Natural selection is the blind watchmaker, blind because it does not see ahead, does not plan consequences, has no purpose…
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It is a remarkable coincidence that almost everyone has the same religion as their parents and it always just so…
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I believe that an orderly universe, one indifferent to human preoccupations, in which everything has an explanation even if we…
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Certainly I see the scientific view of the world as incompatible with religion, but that is not what is interesting…
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Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.
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If circumcision has any justification AT ALL, it should be medical only. Parents' religion is the worst of all reasons…
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I've been reading an Alabama newspaper that one man shot another man because he beat him in a Bible-quoting competition.
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Science, as opposed to technology, does violence to common sense.
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Do you advocate the Ten Commandments as a guide to the good life? Then I can only presume that you…
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Evolution is as much a fact as the heat of the sun.
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Isn't it a remarkable coincidence almost everyone has the same religion as their parents ? And it always just happens…
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'Take offense at the drop of a hat' is the unwritten eleventh commandment.
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More Alchemy Quotes
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Choicelessness is the alchemy of transformation, of inner mutation. A new being is born who has nothing to do with…
— Rajneesh
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I submit that the traditional definition of psychiatry, which is still vogue, places it alongside such things as alchemy and…
— Thomas Szasz
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If you become more sensitive to beauty, to poetry, that means your love has blossomed. And all the energy that…
— Rajneesh
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Chymia, or Alchemy and Spagyrism, is the art of resolving compound bodies into their principles and of combining these again.
— Georg Ernst Stahl
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In the alchemy of man's soul almost all noble attributes- courage, honor, love, hope, faith, duty, loyalty, and so on…
— Eric Hoffer
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So the crew fly on with no thought that they are in motion. Like night over the sea, they are…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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" ... What if?" Through the alchemy of those two words, something new comes into the world.
— David Morrell
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Yes, we who are full to the gorge with misery should look well around, doubting everything seen, done, spoken, precisely…
— Djuna Barnes
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None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the…
— Edith Hamilton
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I've never wanted to be a witch, but an alchemist, now that's a different matter. To invent this wizard world,…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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The experience of the ages that are past, the hopes of the ages that are yet to come, unite their…
— Horace Mann
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If people ever look down upon you for crying for fictional characters, you should give them a gentle, pitying look…
— Cassandra Clare
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