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• As soon as you are willing to discard observational data because it conflicts with religion, you are giving up any hope of ever really understanding the universe.
  As soon as you pick religion as the touchstone of reality, then we have to start discussing how one can demonstrate the correctness of one religion over another when different *religions* disagree....
• Remember Khrushchev: he tried to do too many things too fast, and he was removed in disgrace.
  If Gorbachev tries to destroy the system or make too many fundamental changes to it, I believe the system will get rid of him....
• The more a man is imbued with the ordered regularity of all eve
  the firmer becomes his conviction that there is no room left by the side of this ordered regularity for causes of a different nature....
• We may not be able to persuade Hindus that Jesus and not Vishnu should govern their spiritual horizo
  or Moslems that Lord Buddha is at the center of their spiritual universe, nor Hebrews that Mohammed is a major prophet, nor Christians that Shinto best expresses their spiritual concerns, to say nothing of the fact that we may not be able to get Christians to agree among themselves about their relationship to God....
• We may not be able to persuade Hindus that Jesus and not Vishnu should govern their spiritual horizo
  or Moslems that Lord Buddha is at the center of their spiritual universe, nor Hebrews that Mohammed is a major prohpet, nor Christians that Shinto best expresses their spiritual concerns, to say nothing of the fact that we may not be able to get Christians to agree among themselves about their relationship to God....
• The Big Bang was only the universe rebooting.
• The universe is all a spinoff of the Big Bang.
• The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide. -- Ralph Waldo Emerso
• That truth cannot be material in any respect, is contrary to the nature of things.
  No tribunal, no codes, no systems can repeal or impair this law of God, for by his eternal laws it is inherent in the nature of things ....