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1-50 | 51-100 | 101-150 | 151-200 | 201- Some people are like Slinkies. Not really good for anything but they bring a smile to your face when pushed down the stairs. Never argue with an idiot. The best outcome you can hope for is that you won an argument with an idiot. The more fantastic an ideology or theology, the more fanatic its adherents The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis Heaven wheels above you displaying to you her eternal glories and still your eyes are on the ground. A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side. To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. The correct scientific response to something that is not understood must always be to look harder for the explanation, not give up and assume a supernatural cause Whoever is still seeking for miracles so that he may believe is himself a wonder, who does not believe while the world around him does Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other. If you don’t think too good, don’t think too much. There's a sucker born every minute Heathen, n: A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel. Truth exists. Only lies are invented. That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer. Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature. Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God. All it takes for evil to prosper is for good men to do nothing. The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth. There are causes worth dying for but none worth killing for Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. The better a man knows the truth, the less he is likely to condemn. I have carefully examined what a heretic means, and I cannot make it mean more than this: a heretic is a man with whom you disagree. God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion. Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth. The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried. The job of the evangelist is never easy. Never give in - never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy. You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life. For, to speak truly, that superstition has extended itself through all nations, and has oppressed the intellectual energies of all men, and has betrayed them into endless imbecilities. When you have no basis of argument, abuse the plaintiff A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that he is going to be a beginner all his life. I suffered from chronic hypochondria for years. Eventually I went to a naturopath and was cured with a course of broad-spectrum placebos I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale. We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. It must be done for itself, for the beauty of science, and then there is always the chance that a scientific discovery may become like the radium a benefit for humanity. Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom. The mob has no ruler more potent than superstition This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose. I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world. Faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate. The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction. Science is the disinterested search for the objective truth about the material world. Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it. "Faith" is a fine invention Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to me: 'My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.' This stranger is a theologian.
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