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Since Einstein developed his theory of relativity, and Rutherford and Bohr revolutionised physics, our picture of the world has radically changed.

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A. N. Wilson
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: January 1
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I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.
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It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue - but I would argue it nevertheless - that the peculiar combination of joy and sadness in bell music - both of clock chimes, and of change-ringing - is very typical of England. It is of a piece with the irony in which English people habitually address one another.
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I had lost faith in biography.
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Millions of Christians can and do go through life attending church, listening to sermons, reciting the creeds and never confront the seeming contradictions, redaction and myths passed off as verifiable history.
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The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.
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I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.
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