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.
TIM MINCHINWe must think critically, and not just about the ideas of others. Be hard on your beliefs.
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It’s an incredibly exciting thing, this one, meaningless life of yours.
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It is just a term which describes humankind’s incremental acquisition of understanding through observation. Science is awesome.
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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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I spend so much time hating (my body) but it never says a bad word about me
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Be demonstrative and generous in your praise of those you admire.
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I will judge you on how you treat the least powerful. So there.
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You know what they call alternative medicine that’s been proved to work? – Medicine.
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Science adjusts its views based on what’s observed.
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Science is not a body of knowledge nor a system of belief.
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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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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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Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just this beautiful, complex wonderfully unfathomable world?
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Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just THIS?
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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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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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