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Religious faith depends on a host of social, psychological and emo

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

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But the power of science lies in open publication, which, with the rise of the Internet, is no longer constrained by the price of paper. – Michael Shermer

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Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch. – E.M. Forster

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The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity – an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do. – Bruce Barton

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The facts of science are real enough, and so are the techniques that scientists use, and so are the technologies based on them. But the belief system that governs conventional scientific thinking is an act of faith. – Rupert Sheldrake

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Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it. – Reinhold Niebuhr

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