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Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.

— Dan Brown, Author

Worse than any severe mental illness, is the illness of bigotry.

— Abhijit Naskar, Author

Writing my own novels in the ’90s…I never imagined that in ten years, science and rationality would require explanation and defense in a world rocked and ruled by religious fervor.

— Mary Doria Russell, American Novelist

I think it is a mistake to judge science by Nobel Prizes.

— Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Nobel Prize winning Structural Biologist

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.

— Aristotle, Greek Philosopher

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

— Thomas Hexley, English Biologist

If you are going through hell, keep going.

— Winston Churchill, Former UK Prime Minister

I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. Things like determination, courage, discipline, temperament, these are also talent. 

— Rahul Dravid, Former Indian cricketer

Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.

— Douglas Adams, English Author

Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.

— Jane Austen, English Novelist
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