Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries. ― Mary Shelley

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Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized. Louis Aragon

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In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded. ― Terry Pratchett

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I think that I am among the few lucky ones who are exploiting complexity. Most people are unhappy with the emergence of complexity, they would prefer it if the world were very simple, but then it would be a doom for a cryptographer like myself.

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The general public has long been divided into two parts; those who think that science can do anything and those who are afraid it will.

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The basic assumption of science is scientific determinism.

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Art and religion, carnivals and saturnalia, dancing and listening to oratory - all these have served, in H. G. Wells's phrase, as Doors in the Wall.

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We live in the most probable of all possible worlds.

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Science is still only a candle glimmering in a great pitch-dark cavern.

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Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand. ― Karl Marx

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