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Whether we believe in God depends very much on what we mean by God.
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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it's forever.
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With insufficient data it is easy to go wrong.
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For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations.
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Astronomically, the U. S. S. R. and the United States are the same place.
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Matter is composed chiefly of nothing.
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Nobody listens to mathematicians.
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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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War is murder writ large.
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If the press descended, the science would surely suffer.
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Jingoistic rhetoric and puerile self-congratulatory nationalism.
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Many harebrained interpretations were also widely available, especially in weekly newspapers.
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The chiliasts made an atheist out of me.
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Humans are very good at dreaming, although you'd never know it from your television.
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That it will never come againIs what makes life so sweet.
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If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal.
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The laws of physics suffice, without supernatural intervention.
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I stress that the universe is made mostly of nothing, that something is the exception.
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Science is, at least in part, informed worship.
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