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“People think that epilepsy is divine simply because they don't have any idea what causes epilepsy. But I believe that someday we will understand what causes epilepsy, and at that moment, we will cease to believe that it's divine. And so it is with everything in the universe”
― Hippocrates

tags: epilepsy, fallacy, god-of-the-gaps, ignorance, knowledge, superstition, understanding

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“No one infers a god from the simple, from the known, from what is understood, but from the complex, from the unknown, and incomprehensible. Our ignorance is God; what we know is science.”
― Robert G. Ingersoll, On the Gods and Other Essays

tags: complex, god-of-the-gaps, ignorance, incomprehensible, science, unknown

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