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  • “What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.” -- Werner Heisenberg

     Physics and Philosophy, 1963

  • “Suppose we've chosen the wrong god. Every time we go to church we're just making him madder and madder.” -- Homer Simpson

  • “A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.” -- Winston Churchill

  • “I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern without any superhuman authority behind it.” -- Albert Einstein

  • “All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.” -- Albert Einstein

  • “At least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols.” -- Aldous Huxley

  • “Why not let people differ about their answers to the great mysteries of the Universe? Let each seek one's own way to the highest, to one's own sense of supreme loyalty in life, one's ideal of life. Let each philosophy, each world-view bring forth its truth and beauty to a larger perspective, that people may grow in vision, stature and dedication.” -- Algernon Black

  • “When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.” -- Anais Nin

  • “An Inuit hunter asked the local missionary priest: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" "No," said the priest, "not if you did not know." "Then why," asked the Inuit earnestly, "did you tell me?"” -- Annie Dillard

  • “Lighthouses are more helpful than churches.” -- Benjamin Franklin

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