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'.
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Less abject but more shocking was the letter from the Founder of the Calvary Tabernacle Association in Oklahoma: Professor Einstein, I believe that every Christian in America will answer you, 'We will not give up our belief in our God and his son Jesus Christ, but we invite you, if you do not believe in the God of the people of this nation, to go back where you came from.' I have done everything in my power to be a blessing to Israel, and then you come along and with one statement from your blasphemous tongue, do more to hurt the cause of your people than all the efforts of the Christians who...
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With every single fiber of her soul, she wanted to be With every single fiber of her soul, she wanted to be
RaeAnne ThayneTags: kindlehighlight
We’ve lost something vital, I tell you. When we lost it, we lost the ability to make good decisions. We fall upon decisions these days the way we fall upon an enemy—or wait and wait, which is a form of giving up, and we allow the decisions of others to move us. Have we forgotten that we were the ones who set this current flowing?
Frank HerbertTags: kindlehighlight
If you focus your awareness only upon your own rightness, then you invite the forces of opposition to overwhelm you.
Frank HerbertTags: kindlehighlight
One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp too strongly is to be taken over by power, and thus to become its victim.
Frank HerbertTags: kindlehighlight
virtue does not spring from riches, but riches and all other human blessings, both private and public, from virtue.
PlatoTags: kindlehighlight
this is the greatest good to man, to discourse daily on virtue, and other things which you have heard me discussing, examining both myself and others,
PlatoTags: kindlehighlight
As J. B. S. Haldane said when asked what evidence might contradict evolution, 'Fossil rabbits in the Precambrian.
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If all the evidence in the universe turned in favour of creationism, I would be the first to admit it, and I would immediately change my mind. As things stand, however, all available evidence (and there is a vast amount of it) favours evolution.
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