"But the power of science lies in open publication, which, with the rise of the Internet, is no longer constrained by the price of paper."
-Michael Shermer
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"Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion.“
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"When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied."
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