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Smart people believe weird things because they are skilled at defending beliefs they arrived at for non-smart reasons.
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People believe in God because we are pattern-seeking, storytelling, mythmaking, religious, moral animals.
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We're all talking about the same thing, whether it's religious people or New Age spiritual people or Buddhists or scientists. We're all talking about having a sense of awe and wonder at something grander than ourselves.
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In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.
Charles Babbage
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