It is just a term which describes humankind’s incremental acquisition of understanding through observation. Science is awesome.
TIM MINCHINIt is just a term which describes humankind’s incremental acquisition of understanding through observation. Science is awesome.
TIM MINCHINIf 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.
TIM MINCHINScience 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.
TIM MINCHINIt’s an incredibly exciting thing, this one, meaningless life of yours.
TIM MINCHINIsn’t this enough? Just this world? Just this beautiful, complex wonderfully unfathomable world?
TIM MINCHINDefine yourself by what you love.
TIM MINCHINBe demonstrative and generous in your praise of those you admire.
TIM MINCHINA famous bon mot asserts that opinions are like arse-holes, in that everyone has one.
TIM MINCHINIf 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.
TIM MINCHINIf 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 MINCHINPlease 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 MINCHINThere 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.
TIM MINCHINThroughout history, every mystery ever solved has turned out to be NOT magic.
TIM MINCHINTo dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.
TIM MINCHINFaith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.
TIM MINCHINHow 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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