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“Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”
“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”
― Foundation
― Foundation
“Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.”
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“All knowledge is one. When a light brightens and illuminates a corner of a room, it adds to the general illumination of the entire room. Over and over again, scientific discoveries have provided answers to problems that had no apparent connection with the phenomena that gave rise to the discovery.”
― Atom: Journey Across the Subatomic Cosmos
― Atom: Journey Across the Subatomic Cosmos
“Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly.”
― Roving Mind
― Roving Mind
“All the hundreds of millions of people who, in their time, believed the Earth was flat never succeeded in unrounding it by an inch.”
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Erik’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Erik’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
46 books
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3,941 friends
882 books
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52 friends
2,106 books
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165 friends
33 books
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126 friends
3,262 books
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1,173 friends
1,115 books
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38 friends
2,559 books
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345 friends
4,113 books
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159 friends
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