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It Is A Natural Propensity To Attribute Misfortune To Someone's Malignity.

There Can't Be A Practical Reason For Believing Something That Is Not True.

A Physicist Looks For Causes; That Does Not Necessarily Imply That There Are Causes Everywhere. A Man May Look For Gold Without Assuming That There Is Gold Everywhere; If He Finds Gold, Well And Good, If He Doesn't He's Had Bad Luck. The Same Is True When The Physicists Look For Causes.

When People Begin To Philosophize They Seem To Think It Necessary To Make Themselves Artificially Stupid.

I Do Wish I Believed In The Life Eternal, For It Makes Me Quite Miserable To Think Man Is Merely A Kind Of Machine Endowed, Unhappily For Himself, With Consciousness.