"It is an inconsistency scarcely possible to be credited, that anything should exist - under the name of religion - that holds it to be irreligious to study and contemplate the structure of the Universe that God has made."
(Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason, Prometheus Books, 1984, pp. 47-48)
(Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason, Prometheus Books, 1984, pp. 47-48)