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Science, we are repeatedly told, is the most reliable form of know

Science, we are repeatedly told, is the most reliable form of knowledge about the world because it is based on testable hypotheses. Religion, by contrast, is based on faith. The term doubting Thomas well illustrates the difference. – Paul Davies

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Should we find a second form of life right here on our doorstep, we could be confident that life is a truly cosmic phenomenon. If so, there may well be sentient beings somewhere in the galaxy wondering, as do we, if they are not alone in the universe. – Paul Davies

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Man-made computers are limited in their performance by finite processing speed and memory. So, too, the cosmic computer is limited in power by its age and the finite speed of light. – Paul Davies

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Faith never makes a confession. – Henry David Thoreau

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There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds. – Alfred Lord Tennyson

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My mothers family were full-on Irish Catholics – faith in an elaborate old fashioned, highly conservative and madly baroque style. I sort of fell out of the tribe over womens rights and social justice issues when I was just 13 years old. – Geraldine Brooks

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Doubt is not the opposite of faith it is one element of faith. – Paul Tillich

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There are no foolish questions, and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions. – Charles Proteus Steinmetz

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Justice is incidental to law and order. – John Edgar Hoover

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