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“Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as true or to believe in them.”

“God does not play dice with the universe.”

“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”

“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.”

“No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.”

“There is no pre-established harmony between the furtherance of truth and the well-being of mankind.”