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"But there is only one surefire method of proper pattern recognition, and that is science."
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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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"Through no divine design or cosmic plan, we have inherited the mantle of life's caretaker on the earth, the only home we have ever known."

"The actual atoms and molecules that make up my brain and body today are not the same ones that I was born with on September 8, 1954, a half-century ago this month."

"But the power of science lies in open publication, which, with the rise of the Internet, is no longer constrained by the price of paper."

"No single discovery from any of these fields denotes proof of evolution, but together they reveal that life evolved in a certain sequence by a particular process."

"Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion."

"We think of our eyes as video cameras and our brains as blank tapes to be filled with sensory inputs."

"But because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths."

"When alien abductees recount to me their stories, I do not deny that they had a real experience."

"The reason is that in a group, individual errors on either side of the true figure cancel each other out."
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