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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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"The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasn't misled you into thinking you know something you actually don't know."
"He was a sceptic, he was young, abstract, and therefore cruel."
"I hate books they teach us only to talk about what we do not know."
"For the modern world will accept no dogmas upon any authority; but it will accept any dogmas on no authority. Say that a thing is so, according to the Pope or the Bible, and it will be dismissed as a superstition without examination. But preface your remark merely with "they say" or "don't you know that?" or try (and fail) to rememver the name of some professor mentioned in some newspaper; and the keen rationalism of the modern mind will accept every word you say."
"The most preposterous notion that Homo sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of all the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of His creatures, can be swayed by their prayers, and becomes petulant if He does not receive this flattery. Yet this absurd fantasy, without a shred of evidence to bolster it, pays all the expenses of the oldest, largest, and least productive industry in all history."
"Because people don't believe it unless it happens to them."
"Doubter wants proof which contributes nothing to her faith."
"I don't know449that much about the Bible, other than it waswritten thousands of years ago, which dilutesits relevance. However, I know its faithfulfollowers tend to cherry-pick verses to suittheir needs, the same way they cherry-pickwords or scenes from other books to labelobscene."
"Grandfather informs me that is not possible."
"There is no such thing as magic, supernatural, miracle; only something that's still beyond logic of the observer."
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"If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I don't think it's enough."
"I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts."
"As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound."
"It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool."
"I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance."
"I read a great number of press reports and find comfort in the fact that they are nearly always conflicting."
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