"Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there."
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"Mankind is notoriously too dense to read the signs that God sends from time to time. We require drums to be beaten into our ears, before we should wake from our trance and hear the warning and see that to lose oneself in all, is the only way to find oneself."
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"I don't like religion much, and I am glad that in the Bible the word is not to be found."
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"Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense."
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"Since we proposed punctuated equilibria to explain trends, it is infuriating to be quoted again and again by creationists-whether through design or stupidity, I do not know-as admitting that the fossil record includes no transitional forms. Transitional forms are generally lacking at the species level, but they are abundant between larger groups."
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"When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown."
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"If God creates a world of particles and waves, dancing in obedience to mathematical and physical laws, who are we to say that he cannot make use of those laws to cover the surface of a small planet with living creatures?"
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"There is no neutral ground in the universe. Every square inch, every split second is claimed by God, and counterclaimed by Satan."
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"Religion is a disease, but it is a noble disease."
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"I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's."
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"How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts!"
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"When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion."
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"If you take missions out of the Bible, you won't have anything left but the covers."
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"If Atheism is a religion, then health is a disease!"
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"Religions change; beer and wine remain."
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"So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence."
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"All bibles are man-made."
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"If the Bible is mistaken in telling us where we came from, how can we trust it to tell us where we're going ?"
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"The theory that thought is merely a movement in the brain is, in my opinion, nonsense; for if so, that theory itself would be merely a movement, an event among atoms, which may have speed and direction but of which it would be meaningless to use the words 'true' or 'false'."
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"In the ordinary moral universe, the good will do the best they can, the worst will do the worst they can, but if you want to make good people do wicked things, you’ll need religion."
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