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agnostics
«The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic»
Author: Charles Darwin
(Author, Naturalist)
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Beginning
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agnostic, agnostics, insoluble
«I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics and ideologues who menace decency and progress. No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortur»
Author: Daniel J. Boorstin
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Ignorance
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«Q: What do you get when you cross an insomniac, an agnostic, and a dyslexic?A: Someone who stays up all night wondering if there is a Dog.»
Author: Groucho Marx
(Actor, Comedian, Singer)
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agnostic, agnostics, cross, crossing over, Crossing the, cross out, dog, dyslexic, insomniac, insomniacs, Night, stays, wondering
«There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?»
Author: Richard Dawkins
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Fairies
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«The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists»
Author: William Jennings Bryan
(Orator, Politician)
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Atheism,
Children,
Faith,
Infidelity,
Parents,
Skepticism,
Teachers and teaching
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«I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.»
Author: Clarence Darrow
(Lawyer, Speaker, Writer)
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agnostic, agnosticism, agnostics, compliment, insult, it An, pretend
«I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt it was intellectually unrespectable to say one was an atheist, because it assumed knowledge that one didn't have. Somehow, it was better to say one was a humanist or an agnostic. I finally decided that I'm a creature of emotion as well as of reason. Emotionally, I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time.»
Author: Isaac Asimov
(Biochemist, Writer)
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