Book: What I believe

Philosophy of nature should not be too earthly for her the Earth is one small planet orbiting one of smallest stars in the milky Way. It is absurd to compel the philosophy of nature to conclusions that pampered would tiny parasites that inhabit this small planet.

Religion, having their source in fear, raised some of its manifestations and forced to think that there is nothing shameful. She did mankind a disservice: all fear is evil.

If the world is governed by God, and God can be touched by prayer, and people are endowed with omnipotence.

Fear of human beings (individual or group) largely controls our public life, but religion gives rise to the fear of nature.

... religion creates fear in front of nature.

I don't think the idea of immortality in General there would be if we were not afraid of death.

Always have multiple ways of explaining phenomena, and from them we choose the least incredible.

A drop of water is not immortal, it is decomposed into oxygen and hydrogen. Therefore, if a drop of water is believed has a certain property is watery, which is retained after the decomposition, we probably would've been skeptical. Similarly, we know that the brain is not immortal and that the organized energy of a living body as it goes after death and becomes unsuitable for the activity. All evidence that our mental life is connected with brain structure and organized bodily energy. It would be reasonable to assume, therefore, that when terminated the life of the body, along with her stops and mental life. This argument appeals to probability, but in this he is no different from arguments on which is based the majority of scientific conclusions.

People will continue to believe in God and immortality, because it feels good - as good as to consider ourselves virtuous, and his enemies mired in vices.

What we call "thoughts" depends, apparently, from the organization of the convolutions in the brain - in the same way as travel depend on road and other communications.

It seems as if we storm the impregnable mountain, but on the top of the mountain has a restaurant that serves beer and radio works.

It is believed that the universe has a limited length in space and the light can travel around it for several hundred million years. It is believed that matter is composed of electrons and protons, which have a finite size, and the number was in the world of course. Probably, their movements are not continuous as previously thought, and occur irregularly, each of which is not less than a minimum jump. The laws of these movements, apparently, are summarized in a few very General principles by which it is possible to calculate the past and future of the world, if given any small part of his story. Physical science is thus approaching the stage when it will be completed and become so uninteresting. If we know the laws that govern the movements of electrons and protons, all the rest is just geography, specific collection of facts, talking about the distribution of particles for some segments of world history. The total number of facts of geography required in order to calculate the history of the world, apparently, is not too large. Theoretically they could have been written in a big book, and a book place in Somerset house along with the computing machine: a turn of the lever would allow the researcher to find new facts that belong to another time than the one to which the facts already registered. It's hard to imagine anything more boring and different from the joy that was called until recently, even the slight opening.

Man is part of nature, and not something the opposite. His thoughts and movements follow the same laws as the motions of stars and atoms.

I think that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my "I" will remain. I am no longer young and I love life. But I would have considered it beneath his dignity to tremble in fear at the thought of death. Happiness does not cease to be happiness because it is transitory, and the thought and love do not lose their value because of their transience. Many people behaved with dignity on the scaffold; this pride should teach us to see the true place of man in the world. Even if the wind rushed in the open Windows of science, makes us accustomed to the cosy warmth of traditional refining of myths, at first trembling, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and strength, and opening before us vast spaces have their own unique magnificence.