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"If you can believe it, Hollywood wanted to change my birthdate. I was born after Valentine's Day, so they wanted to change it to February 14. A Latin lover should be born on Valentine's Day. I said no."
"If one believes in a god, one is a Theist. If one does not believe in a god, then one is an A-theist — he is without that belief. The distinction between atheism and theism is entirely, exclusively, that of whether one has or has not a belief in God."
"I cannot anyhow be contented to view this wonderful universe, and especially the nature of man, and to conclude that everything is the result of brute force. I am inclined to look at everything as resulting from designed laws, with the details, whether good or bad, left to the working out of what we call chance. Not that this notion at all satisfies me. I feel most deeply that the whole subject is too profound for the human intellect. A dog might as well speculate on the mind of Newton. Let each man hope and believe what he can."
"It may be conceit, but I believe the subject will interest the public, and I am sure that the views are original."
"Man is more courageous, pugnacious, and energetic than woman, and has a more inventive genius. His brain is absolutely larger, but whether relatively to the larger size of his body, in comparison with that of woman, has not, I believe been fully ascertained. In woman the face is rounder; the jaws and the base of the skull smaller; the outlines of her body rounder, in parts more prominent; and her pelvis is broader than in man; but this latter character may perhaps be considered rather as a primary than a secondary sexual character. She comes to maturity at an earlier age than man."
"Its matter was not new to me, but was presented in a new aspect. It shook me in my habit - the habit of nine-tenths of the world - of believing that all was right about me, because I was used to it."
"And I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States."
"True love believes everything, and bears everything, and trusts everything."
"I believe while I tremble; I trust while I weep."
"I can't believe we've got away with becoming this huge band. And we still haven't done anything I think is that good yet."
"Let me tell you something: for hundreds of thousands of years, this kind of discussion would have been impossible to have, or those like us would have been having it at the risk of our lives. Religion now comes to us in this smiley-face, ingratiating way — because it’s had to give so much more ground and because we know so much more. But you’ve got no right to forget the way it behaved when it was strong, and when it really did believe that it had God on its side."
"Demands that you believe the impossible do not lead to peaceful outcomes."
"Only the aspirants for president are fool enough to believe what they read in the newspapers."
"Religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things."
"I appear as a skeptic, who believes that doubt is the great engine, the great fuel of all inquiry, all discovery and all innovation."
"I don't think Romney is wacky at all, but religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things. Left on his own, Romney would never have said something like the Garden Of Eden was in Missouri, and will be again."
"I still can't believe I won the Olympics. That's what I feel right now - completely alive as a human being. It's a really beautiful moment."
"I just know that I don't want cheating. I refuse. I deepened myself but I don't believe in myself because my thought is invented."
"The investigator should have a robust faith - and yet not believe."
"Men who believe too firmly in their theories, do not believe enough in the theories of others. So ... these despisers of their fellows ... make experiments only to destroy a theory, instead of to seek the truth."
