Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.
TIM MINCHINTake 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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Science is not a body of knowledge nor a system of belief.
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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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To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.
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Only a ginger, can call another ginger Ginger.
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The day they discover yoga mats are carcinogenic will be the happiest day of my life.
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Love without evidence is stalking.
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Define yourself by what you love.
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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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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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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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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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A famous bon mot asserts that opinions are like arse-holes, in that everyone has one.
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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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Who’s the world going to revolve around now?
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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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