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"To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him."
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"Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God."

"The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush."

"It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance."
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"I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear."


"While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced."


"If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of his creation it would appear that God has a special fondness for stars and beetles."


"Would I lay down my life to save my brother? No, but I would to save two brothers or eight cousins."


"My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose."


"Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium."


"We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve."


"In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better."


"I have never yet met a healthy person who worried very much about his health, or a really good person who worried much about his own soul."
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