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Isaac Asimov on Religion

1920–1992 United States

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To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

Religion is more conservative than any other aspect of human life.

The Near East (1968)

For it is the chief characteristic of the religion of science, that it works, and that such curses as that of Aporat's are really deadly.

The Foundation series (1951)

There are many aspects of the universe that still cannot be explained satisfactorily by science; but ignorance only implies ignorance that may someday be conquered. To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

Philosophy on the Go (2007)

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