Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it.
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The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable.
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Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it.
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Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
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Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority.
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Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun.
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Let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
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I am thrilled to be alive at time when humanity is pushing against the limits of understanding. Even better, we may eventually discover that there are no limits.
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Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
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Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.
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There’s real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.
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Human suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for our use.
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Even those who do not, or cannot, avail themselves of a scientific education, choose to benefit from the technology that is made possible by the scientific education of others.
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Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.
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Our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it. And we can make it very wonderful indeed.
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Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are all born selfish.
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After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with colour, bountiful with life.
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Science has its own magic: the magic of reality.
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