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• You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe

  Carl Sagan

  Death, Faith, Atheist

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• In my view, all that is necessary for faith is the belief that by doing our best we shall come nearer to success and that success in our aims (the improvement of the lot of mankind, present and future) is worth attaining...I maintain that faith in this world is perfectly possible without faith in another world.

  Rosalind Franklin

  Views, Religion, World

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• In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken..."

  Carl Sagan

  Change, Science, Theoretical Physics

  Keynote address at CSICOP conference, 1987.

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• Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly.

  Isaac Asimov

  Believe, Home, School

  "The Blind Who Would Lead". "The Roving Mind". Book by Isaac Asimov, 1983.

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• Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.

  Thomas Huxley

  Suicide, Believe, Science

  Leonard Huxley, Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.422, Cambridge University Press

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• I believe there is no source of deception in the investigation of nature which can compare with a fixed belief that certain kinds of phenomena are IMPOSSIBLE.

  William James

  Believe, Science, Deception

  William James (1986). “Essays in Psychical Research”, p.22, Harvard University Press

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• Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.

  Richard Dawkins

  Simple, Difficult, Pushed Away

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• Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.

  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

  Science, Thinking, Discovery

  Chairman Habil Khorakiwala's speech of Wockhardt Ltd., economictimes.indiatimes.com. March 2013.

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• During the youthful period of mankind's spiritual evolution human fantasy created gods in man's own image, who, by the operations of their will were supposed to determine, or at any rate to influence, the phenomenal world. Man sought to alter the disposition of these gods in his own favour by means of magic and prayer.

  Albert Einstein

  Spiritual, Prayer, Mean

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.22, Open Road Media

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• They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

  Francis Bacon

  Life, Nature, Travel

  'The Advancement of Learning' (1605) bk. 2, ch. 7, sect. 5

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• Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Atheist, Fear

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.90, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.188, Princeton University Press

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• We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

  Out of My Later Life 517

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• The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

  Thomas Huxley

  Beauty, Beautiful, Education

  "Biogenesis and Abiogenesis" (1870)

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• Every one who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe-a spirit vastly superior to that of man, and one in the face of which we with our modest powers must feel humble.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Humble, Men

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.33, Princeton University Press

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• Even though the realms of religion and science in themselves are clearly marked off from each other, nevertheless there exist between the two strong reciprocal relationships and dependencies.

  Albert Einstein

  Strong, Two, Realms

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.23, Open Road Media

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• Question with boldness even the existence of a god.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Atheist, Faith Religion

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.90, Rowman & Littlefield

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• A conflict arises when a religious community insists on the absolute truthfulness of all statements recorded in the Bible. This means an intervention on the part of religion into the sphere of science; this is where the struggle of the Church against doctrines of Galileo and Darwin belongs.

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Struggle, Mean

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.23, Open Road Media

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• A religious person is devout in the sense that he has no doubt about the significance of those superpersonal objects and goals which neither require nor are capable of rational foundation

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Goal, Perception

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.22, Open Road Media

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• It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.

  Albert Einstein

  God, Religious, Atheist

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.43, Princeton University Press

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• For good people to do evil things, it takes religion.

  Steven Weinberg

  Religious, Atheist, If There Is A God

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• Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.

  Theodosius Dobzhansky

  Health, Science, Light

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• Don't worry about people stealing your ideas.

  Howard Aiken

  Business, Science, Office Work

  "A Computer Science Reader : Selections from Abacus" by Eric A. Weiss, (p. 404), 1988.

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• The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of anesthetics in childbirth was regarded as a sin because it avoided the biblical curse pronounced against Eve.

  Mark Twain

  Biblical, Discovery, Innovation

  Quoted in Albert B. Paine, Mark Twain: A Biography (1912)

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• Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion go hand in hand.

  Bertrand Russell

  Atheist, Fear, Hands

  Bertrand Russell (1993). “The Quotable Bertrand Russell”

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