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It isn't just that I don't believe in God.... It's that I hope there is no God! I don't want there to be a God; I don't want the universe to be like that.
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The universe has become not only conscious and aware of itself but capable in some respects of choosing its path into the future—though all three, the consciousness, the knowledge, and the choice, are dispersed over a vast crowd of beings, acting both individually and collectively.
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Humans are addicted to the hope for a final reckoning, but intellectual humility requires that we resist the temptation to assume that tools of the kind we now have are in principle sufficient to understand the universe as a whole.
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Perhaps the belief in God is the belief that the universe is intelligible, but not to us.
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Each of our lives is a part of the lengthy process of the universe gradually waking up and becoming aware of itself.
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Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
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July 4, 1937
(age 87)
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