“The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing …”

“The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard who sits in the sky and tallies the fall of every sparrow is ludicrous. But if by God one means the set of physical laws that govern the universe, then clearly there is such a God. This God is emotionally unsatisfying... it does not make much sense to pray to the law of gravity.”

— Carl Sagan

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Title: Wikiquote: Carl Sagan
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Context

As quoted in "Scientists & Their Gods" in U.S. News & World Report Vol. 111 (1991)

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Sagan, Carl. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Carl Sagan. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan

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