| As time passed, however, he seemed even less certain: "We do not know why we are born into the world, but we can try to find out what sort of a world it is — at least in its physical aspects | " John Ellis, How Science Works: Evolution: A Student Primer, page 13• If we are honest — and as scientists honesty is our precise duty — we cannot help but admit that any religion is a pack of false statements, deprived of any real foundation |
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| A Dictionary of Chinese Symbols: Hidden Symbols in Chinese Life and Thought | Its implicit antagonist-reader and protagonist-editor are his Roman Catholic wife Mary Jane, and his troubled agnostic daughter, Mary Shelley: |
The Making of the Modern University: Intellectual Transformation and the Marginalization of Morality.
6| " Wilson: "Can science and religion coexist? Berry, Ruth 25 November 2006 | I would describe myself as an enthusiastic agnostic who would be happy to be shown that there is a God• Epicurus taught that the soul is also made of material objects, and so when the body dies the soul dies with it |
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| It doesn't mean that there's no goodness | The religion of Larry Niven, science fiction author" |
As far as I know, he never identified himself as a member of any formal church or religious faith, but neither did he reject religion.
| Thomas Kuhn is such a skeptic• Chris Mooney 28 February 2011 | From its humble origin as a fun way to send self-erasing photo messages, Snapchat has grown into one of our favorite social media apps |
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| " He also admitted jovially to Pascal's point: so long as there is the possibility of eternal damnation for nonbelievers it is more logical to be a believer at the end• On February 23, 1897, at Hamburgs Little Michael Church, Gustav Mahler is baptized into the Roman Catholic faith | It was rather an observation about his own capacity• In religious matters Lagrange was, if anything at all, agnostic |