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"I sometimes think that the universe is a machine designed for the perpetual astonishment of astronomers."
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
"I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her."
"It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value."
"How inappropriate to call this planet 'Earth' when it is quite clearly 'Ocean'."
"New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!"
"I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical."
"The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion."
"Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering."
"Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the non-existence of Zeus or Thor — but they have few followers now."
"Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal."
"Science is the only religion of mankind."
"I would defend the liberty of consenting adult creationists to practice whatever intellectual perversions they like in the privacy of their own homes; but it is also necessary to protect the young and innocent."
"The time was fast approaching when Earth, like all mothers, must say farewell to her children."
"As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying."
"Religion is a by-product of fear. For much of human history it may have been a necessary evil, but why was it more evil than necessary? Isn't killing people in the name of god a pretty good definition of insanity?"
"If man can live in Manhattan, he can live anywhere."
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