Once you reject evidence as a source of knowledge, you don’t gotta believe nothin’ you don’t like.
TIM MINCHINYou don’t have to be unscientific to make beautiful art or to write beautiful things…
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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 famous bon mot asserts that opinions are like arse-holes, in that everyone has one.
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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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Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just this beautiful, complex wonderfully unfathomable world?
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Throughout history, every mystery ever solved has turned out to be NOT magic.
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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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You don’t have to be unscientific to make beautiful art or to write beautiful things…
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There are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don’t hear them whinging.
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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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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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Empathy is intuitive, but it is also something you can work on intellectually.
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Be demonstrative and generous in your praise of those you admire.
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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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It is just a term which describes humankind’s incremental acquisition of understanding through observation. Science is awesome.
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