Science quotes and quotes about religion Flashcards

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“See that guy over there with an almost identical religion? I wanna kill him because my god is all about love.”

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Jim Gaffigan

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“There will always be good people doing good things, and evil people doing evil things, but for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.”

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Steven Weinberg

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“We can easily forgive a child who fears the dark, the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light”

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Plato

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“Knowing how to think far empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.”

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Neil DeGrasse Tyson

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“You can tell that you’ve created God in your image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.”

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Anne Lamott

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“I’m an atheist. I don’t believe in about 2,700 gods. Christians don’t believe in 2,699 gods, so they’re nearly as atheistic as me.”

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Ricky Gervais

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“When your people came to our land, it was not with open arms, but with bibles and guns and disease. You took our land. You killed us with your guns and disease, then had the arrogance to call us godless savages. If there is a heaven, and it is filled with Christians, then hell is the place for me.”

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Annonymous

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“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.”

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Einstein

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“With great claims must come great evidence.”

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Parallel universe Spiderman Carl Sagan

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“Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.”

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Carl Sagan

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“It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brain falls out.”

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Carl Sagan

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“I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way.”

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Carl Sagan

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“The sky calls to us; if we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars.”

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Carl Sagan

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“If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.”

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Carl Sagan

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“One cannot help but be in awe contemplating the mysteries of eternity, of life, and of the marvelous structure of superconducting RF Cavities at Fermilab made with pure Niobium.”

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Albert Einstein

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“And now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.”

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Robert Oppenheimer

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“I can’t think that it would be terrible of me to say—and it is occasionally true—that I need physics more than friends.”

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Robert Oppenheimer

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“To be happy is to try to build a machine with no other specification than that it shall run noiselessly.”

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Robert Oppenheimer

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“Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.”

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Nietzsche

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“The higher we soar, the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.”

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Nietzsche