Science adjusts its views based on what’s observed.
TIM MINCHINYou know what they call alternative medicine that’s been proved to work? – Medicine.
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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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Who’s the world going to revolve around now?
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Science is not a body of knowledge nor a system of belief.
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A famous bon mot asserts that opinions are like arse-holes, in that everyone has one.
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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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Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.
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The existence of a higher power with any consciousness or interest in the human race or ability to punish or reward humans for their moral choices or that there is any reason other than fear to believe in any version of an afterlife, I will give you my piano, one of my legs and my wife.
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There are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don’t hear them whinging.
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To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.
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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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Throughout history, every mystery ever solved has turned out to be NOT magic.
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We have tendency to define ourselves in opposition to stuff. But try to also express your passion for things you love.
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I spend so much time hating (my body) but it never says a bad word about me
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Empathy is intuitive, but it is also something you can work on intellectually.
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You know what they call alternative medicine that’s been proved to work? – Medicine.
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