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"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not."
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"At the end of all spiritual paths, there lies only a cold graveyard; the path of science is the only path that may give you something better than this!"

"It is a strange fact, incidentally, that religious apologists love the anthropic principle. For some reason that makes no sense at all, they think it supports their case. Precisely the opposite is true. The anthropic principle, like natural selection, is an alternative to the design hypothesis. It provides a rational, design-free explanation for the fact that we find ourselves in a situation propitious to our existence."

"It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics."

"Darwin gives courage to the rest of science that we shall end up understanding literally everything, springing from almost nothing - a thought extremely hard to comprehend and believe."

"If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat."

"Light and the human is poorly understood by the astronomicalprofession, with many astronomers not understanding which light bulbs they should have in their ownhomes and offices! It is embarrassing that astronomers do not understand the many forms of artificiallighting that they are exposed to every day and how it affects them."
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"I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed."

"I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient."

"Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are they all alike. I think so."

"Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money."

"There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing."

"Just before she died she asked, What is the answer? No answer came. She laughed and said, In that case, what is the question? Then she died."

"Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything."
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