"The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology."

God, Gods, Mind

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"The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology."

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"Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions."

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"If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth."

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"The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?"

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"Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong."

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"Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition."

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"If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos."

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"Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction."

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"The historical circumstance of interest is that the tropical rain forests have persisted over broad parts of the continents since their origins as stronghold of the flowering plants 150 million years ago."

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"Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"I know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that would damn or save my soul."

Anne Rice, American Novelist

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"There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will."

Agatha Christie, English Writer

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"It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer

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"Conscience is God present in man."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"God has given you one face, and you make yourself another."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"I gave in, and admitted that God was God."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"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."

David Herbert Lawrence, English Writer

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"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him."

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