Respect people with less power then you. I don’t care if you’re the most powerful cat in the room,
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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Science is not a body of knowledge nor a system of belief.
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There is great wisdom in this… but I would add that opinions differ significantly from arse-holes, in that yours should be constantly and thoroughly examined.
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Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just THIS?
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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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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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The day they discover yoga mats are carcinogenic will be the happiest day of my life.
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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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You know what they call alternative medicine that’s been proved to work? – Medicine.
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Define yourself by what you love.
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There are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don’t hear them whinging.
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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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Science is awesome. The arts and sciences need to work together to improve how knowledge is communicated.
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Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just this beautiful, complex wonderfully unfathomable world?
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Who’s the world going to revolve around now?
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