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But because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation

But because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths. – Michael Shermer

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But there is only one surefire method of proper pattern recognition, and that is science. – Michael Shermer

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Religious faith depends on a host of social, psychological and emotional factors that have little or nothing to do with probabilities, evidence and logic. – Michael Shermer

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Leave the atom alone. – E. Y. Harburg

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Theory helps us bear our ignorance of facts. – George Santayana, The Sense of Beauty, 1896

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I developed that for a long time. I also developed Sugar Sweet Science at New Line and that didnt happen. That was a boxing movie. And between all that there were a couple of other things. – Danny DeVito

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Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science. – Robert Graves

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