The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
ISAAC ASIMOVProperly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
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I don’t believe in an afterlife, so I don’t have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.
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People think of education as something that they can finish.
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It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.
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At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past .
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It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.
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The Earth should not be cut up into hundreds of different sections, each inhabited by a self-defined segment of humanity that considers its own welfare and its own “national security” to be paramount above all other consideration.
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I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
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If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success – but only if you persist.
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If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.
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My feeling is, quite simply, that if there is a God, He has done such a bad job that he isn’t worth discussing.
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The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.
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The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it’s bad for you.
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I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I’ll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it.
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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
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It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
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