"Ninety percent of [contemporary philosophers] see their principal task as that of beating religion out of men's heads. ⊠We are far from being able to provide scientific basis for the theological world view."
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As quoted in Logical Dilemmas : The Life and Work of Kurt Gödel (1997) by John W. Dawson Jr.
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