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"It is not what the man of science believes that distinguishes him, but how and why he believes it. His beliefs are tentative, not dogmatic; they are based on evidence, not on authority or intuition."
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"I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die."
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"The word "belief" is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it - I don't need to believe it."
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"A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason."
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"When everybody worships all sort of religious lies and illogical myths, dare to be there, in the land of reason!"
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"I win by means of nothing but logic and I surrender to nothing but logic. I do not surrender my reason or deal with men who surrender theirs."
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"There's no reason you should write any novel quickly."
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"Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error."
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"How well he's read, to reason against reading!"
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"As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning."
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"A process of reason is a process of constant choice in answer to the question: True or False? - Right or Wrong?"
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"Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know."
Science
"Cynicism such as one finds very frequently among the most highly educated young men and women of the West results from the combination of comfort and powerlessness."
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"It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this."
Life
"Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives."
Love
"Grammar and ordinary language are bad guides to metaphysics. A great book might be written showing the influence of syntax on philosophy."
Philosophy
"I hate the world and almost all the people in it. I hate the Labour Congress and the journalists who send men to be slaughtered, and the fathers who feel a smug pride when their sons are killed, and even the pacifists who keep saying human nature is essentially good, in spite of all the daily proofs to the contrary. I hate the planet and the human race-I am ashamed to belong to such a species."
Emotion
"Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom."
Time
"Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so."
People
"The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them."
Society
"It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion."
Religion
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