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"Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths."
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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."
"Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact."
"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."
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"Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve."
"There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world."
"We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure."
"No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude."
"Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology."
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