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“Do not sneer at the humble beginnings, the heaving table or the flying tambourine, however much such phenomena may have been abused or simulated, but remember that a falling apple taught us gravity, a boiling kettle brought us the steam engine, and the twitching leg of a frog opened up the train of thought and experiment which gave us electricity.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The New Revolution: My Personal Investigation of Spirituality

“Even the slightest trace of piety in us ought to make us feel that a God who cures a headcold at the right moment or tells us to get into a coach just as a downpour is about to start is so absurd a God he would have to be abolished even if he existed.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Anti-Christ

“The moral to be drawn here is that methods by themselves cannot ensure that scientific practices are being followed. There have to be in addition appropriate psychological attitudes possessed by those who use the methods.”
― Ilkka Niiniluoto, Handbook of Epistemology

“Nietzsche's The Antichrist was a response to the Communist Manifesto and Mein Kampf was a response to Lenin’s State and Revolution.”
― Ernst Nolte