Our ignorance is God; what we know is science. When we abandon the doc…

Robert Green Ingersoll
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Our ignorance is God; what we know is science. When we abandon the doctrine that some infinite being created matter and force, and enacted a code of laws for their government ... the real priest will then be, not the mouth-piece of some pretended deity, but the interpreter of nature. ✨ Robert Green Ingersoll (1873). An Oration on the Gods, p.31
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