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The Theory of Evolution has more holes in it than a dam made out of Swiss cheese. ↗

— Eoin Colfer

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A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour; light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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There is no end To what a living world Will demand of you. ↗

— Octavia E. Butler

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Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism--and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

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It is interesting to note how many of the great scientific discoveries begin as myths. ↗

— Rollo May

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I walked into adventure and adventure has given me blisters. ↗

— Andrea K. Höst

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The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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If the history-deniers who doubt the fact of evolution are ignorant of biology, those who think the world began less than ten thousand years ago are worse than ignorant, they are deluded to the point of perversity. They are denying not only the facts of biology but those of physics, geology, cosmology, archaeology, history and chemistry as well. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

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Understanding requires insight. Insight must be anchored. ↗

— Brian Greene

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