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“Each of the major sciences has contributed an essential ingredient in our long retreat from an initial belief in our own cosmic importance. Astronomy defined our home as a small planet tucked away in one corner of an average galaxy among millions; biology took away our status as paragons created in the image of God; geology gave us the immensity of time and taught us how little of it our own species has occupied.”

Source: Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History

“An ideology can be defined as a group of beliefs that individuals borrow; most people borrow an ideology by identifying with a social group ... with a body of sacred documents and heroes.”

People Body Individual Belief Social Groups Atheism Hero Sacred Positive Atheism Ideology Defined Documents Identifying Social Groups

Author:Robert E Lane

“Tears may be considered as the natural and involuntary resource of the mind overcome by some sudden and violent emotion, before ithas had time to reconcile its feelings to the change in circumstances: while laughter may be defined to be the same sort of convulsive and involuntary movement, occasioned by mere sur prise or contrast (in the absence of any more serious emotion), before it has time to reconcile its belief to contradictory appearances.”

Source: Lectures on the English Comic Writers

“Religion may in most of its forms be defined as the belief that the gods are on the side of the government.”

May Government Form Belief Sides Defined

Book:Marriage and Morals

Source: Marriage and Morals

“When preconception is so clearly defined, so easily reproduced, so enthusiastically welcomed and so long accommodated as in the case of Piltdown Man, science reveals a disturbing predisposition towards belief before investigation.”

Men Long Belief Cases Defined Investigation Disturbing Preconceptions

Author:John Reader