Once you reject evidence as a source of knowledge, you don’t gotta believe nothin’ you don’t like.
TIM MINCHINIsn’t this enough? Just this world? Just THIS?
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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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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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I will judge you on how you treat the least powerful. So there.
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Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just THIS?
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It’s an incredibly exciting thing, this one, meaningless life of yours.
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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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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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Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.
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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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Define yourself by what you love.
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It is just a term which describes humankind’s incremental acquisition of understanding through observation. Science is awesome.
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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 … 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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