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• The truth is that Christian theology, like every other theology, is not only opposed to the scientific spiri
  it is also opposed to all other attempts at rational thinking....
• An idea, like a ghost (according to the common notion of a ghost) must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.
  -- Charles Dicke...
• There is, in fact, no reason to believe that any given natural phenomenon, however marvelous it may seem today, will remain forever inexplicable.
  Soon or late the laws governing the production of life itself will be discovered in the laboratory, and man may set up business as a creator on his own account....
• 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....
• The ideal reasoner, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearing
  deduce from it not only the chain of events which led up to it but also the results which would follow from it....
• The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animals.
  Some of their most esteemed inventions have no other apparent purpose, for example, the dinner party of more than two, the epic poem, and the science of metaphysics....