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"You squeeze the eyedropper, and a drop of pond water drips out onto the microscope stage. You look at the projected image. The drop is full of life - strange beings swimming, crawling, tumbling; high dramas of pursuit and escape, triumph and tragedy. This is a world populated by beings far more exotic than in any science fiction movie..."

"What is salvation for humans? The answer is simple: Salvation is to perpetuate our existence via science!"

"Statistics, likelihoods, and probabilities mean everything to men, nothing to God."
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"Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species."

"Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is what we perceive as a value."

"Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man."

"It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young."

"I believe that present day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive."

"We had better dispense with the personification of evil, because it leads, all too easily, to the most dangerous kind of war: religious war."

"Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing."
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