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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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In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA. – Gregory Bateson

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

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Well, religion has been passed down through the years by stories people tell around the campfire. Stories about God, stories about love. Stories about good spirits and evil spirits. – Andrew Greeley

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The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought. – Peter Ustinov

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In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical rites that savage terror may dictate to the individual. – William Robertson Smith

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My religiosity consists in a humble admiration of the infinitely superior spirit that reveals itself in the little that we, with our weak and transitory understanding, can comprehend of reality. Morality is of the highest importance — but for us, not for God. – Albert Einstein

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