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Even Voltaire, perhaps the heart of the Enlightenment, and a man who had not the slightest worry about what anybody thought of him, said that with religion there are difficulties, but with atheism there are absurdities.6
“Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result -- eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly -- in you.”
― A Short History of Nearly Everything
― A Short History of Nearly Everything
“As my father always used to tell me, 'You see, son, there's always someone in the world worse off than you.' And I always used to think, 'So?”
― The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America
― The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America
“If you are going through hell, keep going.”
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“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”
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“Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to
ask questions, never know too much to learn something new. ”
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ask questions, never know too much to learn something new. ”
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Mike’s 2025 Year in Books
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