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If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun in an elliptical orbit, nobody would be able to d...more

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What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.

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When two men of science disagree, they do not invoke the secular arm; they wait for further evidence to decide the issue, because, as men of science, ...more

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For my part, I prefer the ontological argument, the cosmological argument and the rest of the old stock-in-trade, to the sentimental illogicality that...more

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The belief that personality is mysterious and irreducible has no scientific warrant, and is accepted chiefly because it is flattering to our human sel...more

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Change is scientific, ‘progress’ is ethical. Change is indubitable whereas progress is a matter of controversy.

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The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

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We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.

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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

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All who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things. That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be adequately fed than starved, better to...more

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Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my t...more

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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know

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Every man wherever he goes is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions which move with him like flies on a summer day.

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Science tells us what we can know, but what we can know is little, and if we forget how much we cannot know we become insensitive to many things of ve...more

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When you come to look into this argument from design, it is a most astonishing thing that people can believe that this world, with all the things that...more