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There is no reason to regard God as immune from consideration along the spectrum of probabilities. And there is certainly no reason to suppose that, just because God can be neither proved nor disproved, his probability of existence is 50 per cent. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

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One day, on tearing off some old bark, I saw two rare beetles, and seized one in each hand. Then I saw a third and new kind, which I could not bear to lose, so I popped the one which I held in my right hand into my mouth. Alas! it ejected some intensely acrid fluid, which burnt my tongue so that I was forced to spit the beetle out, which was lost, as was the third one. ↗

— Charles Darwin

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It was almost noon when the plane touched down at the Triad airport on the outskirts of Greensboro. There was a hire car waiting for me; I waved my notepad at the dashboard to transmit my profile, then waited as the seating and controls rearranged themselves slightly, piezoelectric actuators humming. As I started to reverse out of the parking bay, the stereo began a soothing improvisation, flashing up a deadpan title: Music for Leaving Airports 11 June 2008. ↗

— Greg Egan

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There is a philosophy that says that if something is unobservable -- unobservable in principle -- it is not part of science. If there is no way to falsify or confirm a hypothesis, it belongs to the realm of metaphysical speculation, together with astrology and spiritualism. By that standard, most of the universe has no scientific reality -- it's just a figment of our imaginations. ↗

— Leonard Susskind

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Riza: Without his Alchemy he's just... Jean: A little brat who swears a lot Maes: An arrogant pipsqueak Roy: Useless. Just useless Alphonse: Sorry big brother, I don't know how to add to that... Ed *starts to cry*: YOU'RE ALL PICKING ON ME!!! ↗

— Hiromu Arakawa

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One cannot be exposed to the law and order of the universe without concluding that there must be a divine intent behind in all....The Creator is revealed through his Creation. ↗

— Whrnher Von Braun

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Poetry is not the proper antithesis to prose, but to science. ↗

— Coleridge

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ولا تظنن أن معرفة درجات الوحي تستدعي منصب الوحي إذ لا يبعد أن يعرف الطبيب المريض درجات الصحة ويعلم العالم الفاسق درجات العدالة وإن كان خاليا عنها فالعلم شيء ووجود المعلوم شيء آخر فلا كل من عرف النبوة والولاية كان نبيا ولا وليا ولا كل من عرف التقوى والورع ودقائقه كان تقيا ↗

— أبو حامد الغزالي

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For a God that created everything, it is mystifying why he created so much competition. ↗

— Trevor Treharne

#atheist #philosophy #reason #science #science

He was a physicist, more precisely an astrophysicist, diligent and eager but without illusions: the Truth lay beyond, inaccessible to our telescopes, accessible to the initiates. This was a long road which he was traveling with effort, wonderment, and profound joy. Physics was prose: elegant gymnastics for the mind, mirror of Creation, the key to man's dominion over the planet; but what is the stature of Creation, of man and the planet? His road was long and he had barely started up it, but I was his disciple: did I want to follow him? ↗

— Primo Levi

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