"I am not a supporter of Marxism, but I fully agree with this formulation. Another thing is that opium can sometimes be useful, and its use justified. For example, I envy believers. Indeed, I am 86 years old, I understand that death is close. And it can turn out to be painful, and no less painful are thoughts about the fate of loved ones. How good it would be to believe in the existence of, say, an afterlife, etc. But the mind is given to man in order to control his emotions and not engage in self-deception, belief in miracles."
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On Karl Marx's phrase “Religion is the opium of the people”.
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Vitaly Ginzburg
Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg (October 4, 1916 – November 8, 2009) was a Russian theoretical physicist and astrophysicist and a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He was the successor to Igor Tamm as head of the Department of Theoretical Physics of the Academy's physics institute (FIAN), and an outspoken atheist. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2003 along with Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov and Anthony James Leggett.
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