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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.

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It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God-but to create him.

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Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.

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Noble be man,
Helpful and good!
For that alone
Sets him apart
From every other creature
On earth.

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I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.

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To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.

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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.

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What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it;
boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

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The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.

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Death smiles at us all, but all a man can do is smile back.

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