It is just a term which describes humankind’s incremental acquisition of understanding through observation. Science is awesome.
TIM MINCHINPlease 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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A genius is a mentally ill person with an audience
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It’s the fine balance of caffeine and alcohol that bookends my days
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Science is not a body of knowledge nor a system of belief.
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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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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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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 must think critically, and not just about the ideas of others. Be hard on your beliefs.
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Love without evidence is stalking.
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Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just THIS?
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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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Send thank-you cards and give standing ovations. Be pro-stuff, not just anti-stuff.
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You know what they call alternative medicine that’s been proved to work? – Medicine.
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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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I will judge you on how you treat the least powerful. So there.
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