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“Start out understanding religion by saying everything is possibly wrong... As soon as you do that, you start sliding down an edge which is hard to recover from...”

Richard P. Feynman

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“Philosophers have said before that one of the fundamental requisites of science is that whenever you set up the same conditions, the same thing…

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My rule is, when you are unhappy, think about it. But when you're happy, don't. Why spoil it? You're probably happy for some ridiculous…

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Trying to understand the way nature works involves a most terrible test of human reasoning ability. It involves subtle trickery, beautiful tightropes of logic…

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Today's brains are yesterday's mashed potatoes.

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Mathematics is a language plus reasoning; it is like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning.

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It is necessary for the very existence of science that minds exist which do not allow that nature must satisfy some preconceived conditions.

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“There was a Princess Somebody of Denmark sitting at a table with a number of people around her, and I saw an empty chair…

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All the time you're saying to yourself, 'I could do that, but I won't,'--which is just another way of saying that you can't.

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“There's a big difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.”

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The fact that you are not sure means that it is possible that there is another way someday.

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You can always recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity.

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One cannot understand... the universality of laws of nature, the relationship of things, without an understanding of mathematics. There is no other way to…

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From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the…

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“What I have a problem with is not so much religion or god, but faith. When you say you believe something in your heart…

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Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts.

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No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.

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Let me tell you that atheism has never painted a masterpiece. Atheism has never dispelled fear. Atheism has never healed a disease; faith in…

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Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for…

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The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which penetrate into…

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God speaks through me.

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A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty - it…

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You cannot ... transmute some incoherent mixture of words into sense merely by introducing the three-letter word "God" to be its grammatical subject.

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Many humanists have argued that happiness involves a combination of hedonism and creative moral development; that an exuberant life fuses excellence and enjoyment, meaning…

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If, with all the time at my disposal, with all the wealth of the resources of this vast universe, to do with as I…

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