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"The purpose of education is not to validate ignorance...it's to overcome it." Lawrence Krauss

"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." Carl Sagan

"Science doesn't make it impossible to believe in God, it just makes it possible NOT to believe in God." Steven Weinberg

"We must respect the other fellow`s religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart." H. L. Menken

"The President of the United States has claimed, on more than one occasion, to be in dialogue with God. If he said he was talking to God through his hairdryer, this would precipitate to a national emergency. I fail to see how the addition of a hairdryer makes the claim more ludicrous or more offensive." Sam Harris

"Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazzar. They offer consolation and solidarity and uplift, competing as they do in a marketplace. But we have a right to remember how barbarically they behaved when they were strong and were making an offer that people could NOT refuse." Christopher Hitchens

(Regarding Johannes Kepler, best known for his laws on planetary motion) "When he found that his long cherrished beliefs did not agree with the most precise observations, he accepted the uncomfortable facts. He prefered the hard truth to his dearest illusions. That is the heart of science." Carl Sagan

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