Science is not a body of knowledge nor a system of belief.
TIM MINCHINOnly a ginger, can call another ginger Ginger.
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Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.
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Science adjusts its views based on what’s observed.
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If I had a religion, its deity would be Audysseus, the sound God, and He would be a vengeful god, dishing out eternal damnation to people with cheap stage monitors.
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Science is not a body of knowledge or a belief system, it is just a term that describes humankind’s incremental acquisition of understanding through observation.
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If anyone can show me one example in the history of the world of a single spiritual person who has been able to show either empirically or logicall.
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Science is awesome. The arts and sciences need to work together to improve how knowledge is communicated.
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There is great wisdom in this… but I would add that opinions differ significantly from arse-holes, in that yours should be constantly and thoroughly examined.
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Define yourself by what you love.
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If anyone can show me … that there is any reason – other than fear – to believe in any version of an afterlife, I’ll give you my piano, one of my legs, and my wife.
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Respect people with less power then you. I don’t care if you’re the most powerful cat in the room,
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Once you reject evidence as a source of knowledge, you don’t gotta believe nothin’ you don’t like.
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Please don’t make the mistake of thinking that the arts and sciences are at odds with one another. That is a recent, stupid and damaging idea.
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Empathy is intuitive, but it is also something you can work on intellectually.
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It’s an incredibly exciting thing, this one, meaningless life of yours.
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Only a ginger, can call another ginger Ginger.
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