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"The most preposterous notion that Homo sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of all the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of His creatures, can be swayed by their prayers, and becomes petulant if He does not receive this flattery. Yet this absurd fantasy, without a shred of evidence to bolster it, pays all the expenses of the oldest, largest, and least productive industry in all history."
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"Brand-new truths are probably not Truths."
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"We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts."
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"There is no such thing as magic, supernatural, miracle; only something that's still beyond logic of the observer."
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"The most preposterous notion that Homo sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of all the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of His creatures, can be swayed by their prayers, and becomes petulant if He does not receive this flattery. Yet this absurd fantasy, without a shred of evidence to bolster it, pays all the expenses of the oldest, largest, and least productive industry in all history."
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"Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism."
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"Even the self-assured truth-finders and self-proclaimed freedom-fighters reject Truth. As admirable as such endeavors may be, they still only really want it so long as it to some extent confirms what they had already presumed to be true."
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"Isaac Asimov's remark about the infantilism of pseudoscience is just as applicable to religion: 'Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket, a thumb to suck, a skirt to hold.' It is astonishing, moreover, how many people are unable to understand that 'X is comforting' does not imply 'X is true'."
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"It's been suggested that if the super-naturalists really had the powers they claim, they'd win the lottery every week. I prefer to point out that they could also win a Nobel Prize for discovering fundamental physical forces hitherto unknown to science. Either way, why are they wasting their talents doing party turns on television?By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out."
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"I suppose that one reason I have always detested religion is its sly tendency to insinuate the idea that the universe is designed with 'you' in mind or, even worse, that there is a divine plan into which one fits whether one knows it or not. This kind of modesty is too arrogant for me."
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"Grandfather informs me that is not possible."
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"Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards."
Writing
"A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill."
Society
"One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others."
Life
"The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship."
Science
"May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live."
Love
"It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip."
Trust
"There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick."
Food
"Never own more than you can carry in both hands at a dead run."
Simplicity
"She found as always that words on paper proved themselves, they were so beautifully true."
Literature
"If you got good elective officials in your day, it was a happy accident, better than you deserved."
Politics
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