Science is not a body of knowledge nor a system of belief.
TIM MINCHINYou don’t have to be unscientific to make beautiful art or to write beautiful things…
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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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Who’s the world going to revolve around now?
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You don’t have to be unscientific to make beautiful art or to write beautiful things…
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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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It’s an incredibly exciting thing, this one, meaningless life of yours.
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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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It’s the fine balance of caffeine and alcohol that bookends my days
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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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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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Once you reject evidence as a source of knowledge, you don’t gotta believe nothin’ you don’t like.
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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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I will judge you on how you treat the least powerful. So there.
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Send thank-you cards and give standing ovations. Be pro-stuff, not just anti-stuff.
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Define yourself by what you love.
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