Albert Brooks

“We know meditation is healthy. Everybody says it slows your heart rate and everything, and the basis of religion seems to be that when you pray — I don’t know …

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Steve Albini

“People use God to fill in the spaces in the gaps of their knowledge. … As we follow the trajectory of knowledge, the need for a God just dwindles, and …

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Marci Hamilton

“The ‘Restoration’ in the title is a lie. It was not restoring anything that had been in place before. It was putting in place what the religious litigants had failed …

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Octavia Butler

“At the moment, there are no true aliens in our lives. No Martians or Tau Cetians, to swoop down in advanced space ships, their attentions firmly fixed on the all-important …

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Dan Brown

“In eighth or ninth grade, I studied astronomy, cosmology, and the origins of the universe. I remember saying to a minister, ‘I don’t get it. I read a book that …

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