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"We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts."
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"Brand-new truths are probably not Truths."
"We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts."
"There is no such thing as magic, supernatural, miracle; only something that's still beyond logic of the observer."
"Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism."
"Even the self-assured truth-finders and self-proclaimed freedom-fighters reject Truth. As admirable as such endeavors may be, they still only really want it so long as it to some extent confirms what they had already presumed to be true."
"Isaac Asimov's remark about the infantilism of pseudoscience is just as applicable to religion: 'Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket, a thumb to suck, a skirt to hold.' It is astonishing, moreover, how many people are unable to understand that 'X is comforting' does not imply 'X is true'."
"I suppose that one reason I have always detested religion is its sly tendency to insinuate the idea that the universe is designed with 'you' in mind or, even worse, that there is a divine plan into which one fits whether one knows it or not. This kind of modesty is too arrogant for me."
"Grandfather informs me that is not possible."
"When you don't have explanation for a certain phenomenon, as a real human, you should suspend judgement, instead of concocting supernatural explanations out of ignorance and primordial fanaticism."
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"We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts."
"At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman."
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"(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion."
"I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts."
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