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.
TIM MINCHINWe must think critically, and not just about the ideas of others. Be hard on your beliefs.
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Take them out onto the verandah and beat them with a cricket bat…. Be intellectually rigorous. Identify your biases, your prejudices, your privilege.
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You know what they call alternative medicine that’s been proved to work? – Medicine.
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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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A genius is a mentally ill person with an audience
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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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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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Science is awesome. The arts and sciences need to work together to improve how knowledge is communicated.
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You don’t have to be unscientific to make beautiful art or to write beautiful things…
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How does it so fail to hold our attention that we have to diminish it with the invention of cheap, man-made myths and monsters?
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Science is not a body of knowledge nor a system of belief.
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It’s an incredibly exciting thing, this one, meaningless life of yours.
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Send thank-you cards and give standing ovations. Be pro-stuff, not just anti-stuff.
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A famous bon mot asserts that opinions are like arse-holes, in that everyone has one.
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Only a ginger, can call another ginger Ginger.
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Define yourself by what you love.
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