If 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 MINCHINIt is just a term which describes humankind’s incremental acquisition of understanding through observation. Science is awesome.
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Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just THIS?
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Science adjusts its views based on what’s observed.
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Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just this beautiful, complex wonderfully unfathomable world?
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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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Once you reject evidence as a source of knowledge, you don’t gotta believe nothin’ you don’t like.
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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 not a body of knowledge nor a system of belief.
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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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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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The day they discover yoga mats are carcinogenic will be the happiest day of my life.
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You don’t have to be unscientific to make beautiful art or to write beautiful things…
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You know what they call alternative medicine that’s been proved to work? – Medicine.
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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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Science is awesome. The arts and sciences need to work together to improve how knowledge is communicated.
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Send thank-you cards and give standing ovations. Be pro-stuff, not just anti-stuff.
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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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Love without evidence is stalking.
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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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Be demonstrative and generous in your praise of those you admire.
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Only a ginger, can call another ginger Ginger.
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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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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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Empathy is intuitive, but it is also something you can work on intellectually.
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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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A genius is a mentally ill person with an audience
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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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