It is just a term which describes humankind’s incremental acquisition of understanding through observation. Science is awesome.
TIM MINCHINThe 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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To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.
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Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just THIS?
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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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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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Science is awesome. The arts and sciences need to work together to improve how knowledge is communicated.
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I will judge you on how you treat the least powerful. So there.
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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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Send thank-you cards and give standing ovations. Be pro-stuff, not just anti-stuff.
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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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We must think critically, and not just about the ideas of others. Be hard on your beliefs.
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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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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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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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Who’s the world going to revolve around now?
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A famous bon mot asserts that opinions are like arse-holes, in that everyone has one.
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