"It has always puzzled me that so many people have taken it for granted that God favors those who believe in him. Isn't it possible that the actual God is a scientific God who has little patience with beliefs founded on faith rather than evidence?"

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Source : Raymond Smullyan (1983). “Five Thousand B.C. and Other Philosophical Fantasies”, p.33, Macmillan

Raymond Smullyan

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“I shoot forÂ the moonÂ but I'm too busy gazing the stars.”
“I examine it [pain] every which way. Why do I really feel this way? What's going on here? I have to really explore it all the way out, drill it down to its lowest common denominator and go, Oh! That's what that is. I'm feeling insecure. Or, Oh! God has something better for me.”
“The world of 'The Hunger Games' is a paranoid survivalist's dream.”
“In my opinion painters owe to Giotto, the Florentine painter, exactly the same debt they owe to nature, which constantly serves them as a model and whose finest and most beautiful aspects they are always striving to imitate and reproduce.”

Source : Giorgio Vasari, George Bull (1978). “Artists of the Renaissance: a selection from Lives of the artists”, Viking Pr
“The three most important things a manager does: One is get the money. Two is always remember to get the money. Three is never forget to always remember to get the money.”
“We should not give away a moment to anyone who does not deserve it.”
“All those words of praise they use for novels - spare, economical. Why should I shell out Â£17 for economical?”

Source : Interview in the Daily Telegraph, April 2003.
“When I die, so does hip hop.”

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