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Such major organizations of thought may be necessary in science as much as in religion.

— Julian Huxley The New Divinity (1964)

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Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.

Religion without Revelation (1957)

Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

This earth is one of the rare spots in the cosmos where mind has flowered.

The New Divinity (1964)

The world of things entered your infant mind
To populate that crystal cabinet.

Poem in Essays of a Biologist (1923)

In the actual duration of his life, the individual ranges from the bacterium's hour to the big tree's five thousand years.

The Individual in the Animal Kingdom (1912)

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All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

Albert Einstein Moral Decay (1937)

Science and religion are two human enterprises sharing many features.

Freeman Dyson Infinite in All Directions (1988)

The moment the idea is admitted into society, that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.

John Adams A Defence of the Constitutions of Government (1787)

The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

Thomas Babington Macaulay History of England (1849)

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