"The idea that God may be approached and understood through intellectual analysis is uniquely Christian. ...It is probably not an accident that modern science grew explosively in Christian Europe and left the rest of the world behind."

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Source : "The Scientist As Rebel". Book by Freeman Dyson, 2006.

Freeman Dyson

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“Race wasn't an issue. My family was French, but Yorkville was a melting pot of races and cultures.”
“I think the Chinese are really amateurs when it comes to running markets.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“It's a good start. Seems like all the lines have chemistry right now. It's tough to tell after one game, but with only one practice all the guys looked like the flowed pretty good out there after the first period.”
“If you do just one thingâ€”make one conscious choiceâ€”that can change the world, go organic. Buy organic food. Stop using chemicals and start supporting organic farmers. No other single choice you can make to improve the health of your family and the planet will have greater positive repercussions for our future.”
“God, Satan, Paradise, and Hell all vanished one day in my fifteenth year, when I quite abruptly lost my faith. ... and afterwards, to prove my new-found atheism, I bought myself a rather tasteless ham sandwich, and so partook for the first time of the forbidden flesh of the swine. No thunderbolt arrived to strike me down. ... From that day to this I have thought of myself as a wholly secular person.”
“One lesson to learn is that the press and the broadcasters are not neutral. And it seems we have to learn it each time there is a dispute: they are actually committed to one side.”

Source : "Ken Loach and Paul Laverty". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2007.
“Fear-bola attacks the part of the brain responsible for rational thinking. It starts with a low-grade concern about the two health care workers diagnosed with Ebola in Dallas and slowly builds into fear of a widespread epidemic in the United States.”

Source : "'Fear-bola' hits epidemic proportions" by Mel Robbins, www.cnn.com. October 15, 2014.
“The idea that we have the right to inflict suffering and death on other sentient beings for the trivial reasons of palate pleasure and fashion is, without doubt, one of the most arrogant and morally repugnant notions in the history of human thought.”

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