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Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is

Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions. – Gregory Bateson

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Still more astonishing is that world of rigorous fantasy we call mathematics. – Gregory Bateson

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It is, I claim, nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man acted as the nucleus for the change. It is precisely this that makes history unpredictable into the future. – Gregory Bateson

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More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion. – Alexander Chase

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To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy. – William Ralph Inge

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Christianity tells people to repent and promises them forgiveness. It therefore has nothing (as far as I know) to say to people who do not know they have done anything to repent of and who do not feel that they need forgiveness. – C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

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Religion is a fashionable substitute for Belief. – Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

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