Quote by Paul Davies
In science, a healthy skepticism is a professional necessity, wher

In science, a healthy skepticism is a professional necessity, whereas in religion, having belief without evidence is regarded as a virtue. – Paul Davies

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To expect alien technology to be just a few decades ahead of ours is too incredible to be taken seriously. – Paul Davies

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Technology
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Cosmologists have attempted to account for the day-to-day laws you find in textbooks in terms of fundamental superlaws, but the superlaws themselves must still be accepted as brute facts. So maybe the ultimate laws of nature will always be off-limits to science. – Paul Davies

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Science
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For me, science is already fantastical enough. Unlocking the secrets of nature with fundamental physics or cosmology or astrobiology leads you into a wonderland compared with which beliefs in things like alien abductions pale into insignificance. – Paul Davies

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Science
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion. – Baruch Spinoza

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Religion

Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science. – Henri Bergson

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Religion

The Left is doing to America what it has done to almost everything it has deeply influenced – the arts, the university, religion, culture, minorities, Europe: ruining it. – Dennis Prager

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Religion

The Grateful Dead are our religion. This is a religion that doesnt pay homage to the God that all the other religions pay homage to. – Ken Kesey

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Religion

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The mark of fear is not easily removed. – Ernest Gaines

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I enjoy many silent moments with my cat, a conversation always resumed exactly where left off. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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I think somehow men understand other mens need for respect differently than they understand it for a woman. Im disappointed to have to say that, but I think its undeniably true. – Carly Fiorina

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Iced tea may not have as much wisdom as hot tea, but in the summer better a cool and refreshed dullard than a steamy sweat-drenched sage — leave sagacity to the autumn! – Terri Guillemets

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