A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
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Carl Sagan
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Anatole France
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
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Salman Rushdie
Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.
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Robert A. Heinlein
Zeal was like gas, most dangerous when you could not see it. The wrong spark could light it at any time.
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Frances Hardinge
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It is essential to understand our brains in some detail if we are to assess correctly our place in this vast and complicated universe we see all around us.
It is not easy to convey, unless one has experienced it, the dramatic feeling of sudden enlightenment that floods the mind when the right idea finally clicks into place. One immediately sees how many previously puzzling facts are neatly explained by the new hypothesis. One...
The dangerous man is the one who has only one idea, because then he'll fight and die fo
An honest man, armed with all the knowledge available to us now, could only state that in some sense, the origin of life appears at the moment to be almost a miracle, so many are the conditions which would have had to have been satisfied...
