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"He who made us would have been a pitiful bungler, if he had made the rules of our moral conduct a matter of science. For one man of science, there are thousands who are not. What would have become of them? Man was destined for society. His morality, therefore, was to be formed to this object. He was endowed with a sense of right and wrong, merely relative to this."
"The genuine and simple religion of Jesus will one day be restored: such as it was preached and practiced by Himself."
"The goal of revival is conformity to the image of Christ, not imitation of animals."
"People crave a conspiracy for the same reason they crave a god."
"During the Middle Ages there were all kinds of crazy ideas, such as that a piece of rhinoceros horn would increase potency. Then a method was discovered for separating the ideas - which was to try one to see if it worked, and if it didn't work, to eliminate it. This method became organized, of course, into science."
"This attitude of mind - this attitude of uncertainty - is vital to the scientist, and it is this attitude of mind which the student must first acquire. It becomes a habit of thought. Once acquired, we cannot retreat from it anymore."
"And one of the three great things in the world is gossip, you know. First there's religion; and then there's science; and there's-and then there's friendly gossip. Those are the three-the three great things."
"Memento mori and obey the Lord. Art and religion love the somber chord."
"True religion has a universal quality. It does not find fault with other religions. False religions will find fault with other religions; they will say that theirs is the only valid religion and their prophet is the only saviour. But a true religion will feel that all the prophets are saviours of mankind."
"Real science can be far stranger than science fiction and much more satisfying."
"[Evolution is] one of the best documented, most compelling and exciting concepts in all of science."
"Odd arrangements and funny solutions are the proof of evolution - paths that a sensible God would never tread but that a natural process, constrained by history, follows perforce."
"No rational order of divine intelligence unites species. The natural ties are genealogical along contingent pathways of history."
"Religion has no business to formulate social laws and insist on the difference between beings, because its aim and end is to obliterate all such fictions and monstrosities."
"Mankind ought to be taught that religions are but the varied expressions of THE RELIGION, which is Oneness, so that each may choose the path that suits him best."
"To ignore the religious nature of the terrorist threat is to succumb to politically correct delusion."
"We must never forget that both good and evil flow from the Bible. It is therefore not above criticism."
"But I contend that the disgusting behavior of many of their alleged 'holy men' relieves us of any intellectual obligation to take the stuff seriously. No amount of sanctimonious rationalization can make such behavior anything but pathological."
"The way Kathy Lee needs Regis, that's the way I need Jesus."
"who wants flowers when youre dead? nobody."
