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Consciously or unconsciously, the strategy of true believers is to isolate themselves from skeptics.

— Robert L. Park Voodoo Science (2000)

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Every step taken by science claims territory once occupied by the supernatural.

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It is an axiom in the publishing business, however, that pseudoscience will always sell more books than the real science that debunks it.

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The integrity of science is anchored in the willingness of scientists to test their ideas and results in direct confrontation with their scientific peers.

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It is not so much knowledge of science that the public needs as a scientific worldview—an understanding that we live in an orderly universe, governed by physical laws that cannot be circumvented.

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They are betting against the laws of thermodynamics. No one has ever won that wager.

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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

William James The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)

Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

Thomas Jefferson Letter to Peter Carr (1787)

I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.

Colin Wilson Postscript to the Outsider (1967)

Love is the active, working principle in all true faith. It is its very soul, without which it is dead. "Faith works by love."

Jonathan Edwards Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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