Science keeps down the weed of superstition not by logic, but by rendering the mental soil unfit for its cultivation
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The mind is a musical instrument with a certain range of tones, beyond which in both directions we have an infinite silence.
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Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles.
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The brightest flashes in the world of thought are incomplete until they have been proven to have their counterparts in the world of fact.
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If I wanted a loving father, a faithful husband, an honorable neighbor, and a just citizen, I would seek him among the band of Atheists
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Superstition is...religion which has grown incongruous with intelligence.
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