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Richard Dawkins Quotes: There may be some deep questions about the cosmos that are forever beyond science. The mistake is to think they are therefore not beyond religion too.
         

There may be some deep questions about the cosmos that are forever beyond science. The mistake is to think they are therefore not beyond religion too.


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How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the true one.



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Science is the poetry of reality.



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