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Now, the invention of the scientific method and science is, I'm sure we'll all agree, the most powerful intellectual idea, the most powerful framework...more

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I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.

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Religion... has certain ideas at the heart of it which we call sacred or holy or whatever... If someone votes for a party that you don't agree with, y...more

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If you describe yourself as "Atheist," some people will say, "Don't you mean 'Agnostic'?" I have to reply that I really do mean Atheist. I really do n...more

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But she was finding it increasingly easy to believe that God, if there was a God, and if it was remotely possible that any godlike being who could ord...more

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I don't accept the currently fashionable assertion that any view is automatically as worthy of respect as any equal and opposite view. My view is that...more

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Gilks sighed. ‘You’re a clever man, Cjelli, I grant you that,’ he said, ‘but you make the samemistake a lot of clever people do of thinking everyone e...more

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Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

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One of the major difficulties Trillian experienced in her relationship with Zaphod was learning to distinguish between him pretending to be stupid jus...more

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This is rather as if you imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, 'This is an interesting world I find myself in — an interesting hole I f...more