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There are, of course, inherent tendencies to repetition in music itself. Our poetry, our ballads, ou...

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Oliver SacksMusicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain

God is an hypothesis, and, as such, stands in need of proof: the onus probandi rests on the theist.

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Percy Bysshe ShelleyThe Necessity of Atheism and Other Essays

I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of the conviction that...

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And some scientists and other intellectuals are convinced—too eagerly in my view—that the question o...

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The TV scientist who mutters sadly, "The experiment is a failure; we have failed to achieve what we ...

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Robert M. PirsigZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

The only part of evolution in which any considerable interest is felt is evolution applied to man. A...

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The first objection to Darwinism is that it is only a guess and was never anything more. It is calle...

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I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fi...

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Bertrand RussellWhy I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects

It is not easy to convey, unless one has experienced it, the dramatic feeling of sudden enlightenmen...

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What I'd like to read is a scientific review, by a scientific psychologist--if any exists--of 'A Sci...

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It necessarily follows that chance alone is at the source of every innovation, and of all creation i...

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... every hypothesis is a construction, and because of this it is an authentic theory. In so far as ...

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Many people assert that this abandonment of the god hypothesis means the abandonment of all religion...

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