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Neutrinos are neither rare nor anomalous — just hard to detect.

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Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings.

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Infinity...is used in physics simply as a shorthand for "a very big number.

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Thought, without the data on which to structure that thought, leads nowhere.

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The universe is not fine-tuned to us; we are fine-tuned to our particular universe.

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The so-called mysteries of quantum mechanics are in its philosophical interpretation, not in its mathematics.

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Nature is capable of building complex structures by processes of self-organization; simplicity begets complexity.

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Science is not going to change its commitment to the truth. We can only hope religion changes its commitment to nonsense.

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Selling eternal life is an unbeatable business, with no customers ever asking for their money back after the goods are not delivered.

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The problem is that people think faith is something to be admired. In fact, faith means you believe in something for which you have no evidence.

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Any attempt at understanding humanity must include an explanation of the hold that supernatural belief continues to have on most of the human race.

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Unlike those theists who at least pay lip service to science and scientific method, Johnson is out to convict science of fraud in the court of public opinion.

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Great physicists from Galileo to Einstein have clarified the meanings of space and time for us, not overthrown their basic conceptions nor declared them obsolete.

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The most fundamental laws of physics are not restrictions on the behaviour of matter. Rather, they are restrictions on the way physicists may describe that behaviour.

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In a poll taken in 1998, only 7 percent of the members of the US National Academy of Sciences, the elite of American scientists, said they believed in a personal god.

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Scientists speak of the Law of Inertia or the Second Law of Thermodynamics as if some great legislature in the sky once met and set down rules to govern the universe.

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The belief in supernatural forces remains to this day a yoke on the neck of humanity, but at least Thales made it possible, for those of us who wish it, to be free of that yoke.

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