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Weinberg, Steven. Address in Washington, DC. Conference on Cosmic Design. Apr. 1999, Washington, DC, USA.

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Eddington, Arthur. Stars and Atoms. The Clarendon Press, 1938, lecture 1. Originally a discourse called "Stars and Atoms." Meeting of the British Association. Aug. 1926, Oxford, England, UK.

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Haldane, J. B. S. "Possible Worlds." Possible Worlds and Other Essays. Chatto and Windus, 1927.

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Haldane, J. B. S. "Possible Worlds." Possible Worlds and Other Essays. Routledge, 2001.

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Muller, H. J. Science and Criticism; the Humanistic Tradition in Contemporary Thought. Yale University Press/Oxford University Press, 1943, ch. 5.

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Einstein, Albert. "What Life Means to Einstein." Interviewed by George Sylvester Viereck. The Saturday Evening Post, 26 Oct. 1929.

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Poincare, Henri. Science et methode [Science and Method]. Flammarion, 1914, bk. 1, ch. 3.

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Eddington, Arthur. "The Nature Of The Physical World." Gifford lecture. January – March 1927, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Newton, Isaac. Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica [The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy], vol. 1. London: Josephi Streater, 1687, preface.

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Newton, Isaac. The Principia, translated by Andrew Motte. Prometheus, 1995, the author's preface.

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Pliny the Elder. Historia Naturalis [Natural History]. 77 AD, bk. 2.

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Pliny the Elder. Natural History: A Selection, translated by John F. Healy. Penguin Classics, 1991, bk. 2.

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Pliny the Elder. Historia Naturalis [Natural History]. 77 AD, bk. 7.

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Pliny the Elder. Natural History: A Selection, translated by John F. Healy. Penguin Classics, 1991, bk. 7.

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Newton, Isaac. "Rules for Methodising/Construing the Apocalyps." Untitled Treatise on Revelation, c. 1680, rule 9.

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Einstein, Albert. Conference in New York City. Conference on Science, Philosophy and Religion in their Relation to the Democratic Way of Life. 9 Sept. 1940-11 Sept. 1940, New York City, NY, USA.

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Darwin, Charles. The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. London: John Murray, 1871, pt. 3, ch. 21.

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Darwin, Charles. The Descent of Man. Penguin Classics, 2004, pt. 3, ch. 21.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

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Quoted in The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, by Diogenes Laërtius

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Theophrastus. Quoted in The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, written by Diogenes Laërtius. c. 240 AD, bk. 5, ch. 2.

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Theophrastus. Quoted in The Lives of Eminent Philosophers, written by Diogenes Laërtius, translated by Pamela Mensch, edited by James Miller. Oxford University Press, 2018, bk. 5, ch. 2.

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Einstein, Albert. "What Life Means to Einstein." Interviewed by George Sylvester Viereck. The Saturday Evening Post, 26 Oct. 1929.

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Darwin, Charles. Letter to A. S. Wilson, 5 Mar. 1879.

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Darwin, Charles. "To A. S. Wilson, 5 March 1879." The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, edited by Frederick Burkhardt and James A. Secord. Vol. 27: 1879. Cambridge University Press, 2020, no. 11917.

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Dawkins, Richard. "Richard Dawkins: You Ask the Questions Special." The Independent, 4 Dec. 2006.

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Einstein, Albert. "Einstein on the Atomic Bomb." Interviewed by Raymond Swing. Atlantic Monthly, Nov. 1945.

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Einstein, Albert. Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb. Princeton University Press, 2013, ch. 8.

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Einstein, Albert. Quoted in Einstein and Religion: Physics and Theology, by Max Jammer. Princeton University Press, 1999. Originally from Letter to Michaelangelo Besso, 21 Mar. 1955.

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Einstein, Albert. "Freiheit und Wissenschaft [Freedom and Science]." 1940.

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Einstein, Albert. "On Freedom." Out of My Later Years. Philosophical Library/Open Road, 2015, ch. 6.