Science adjusts its views based on what’s observed.
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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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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Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.
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To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.
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It’s an incredibly exciting thing, this one, meaningless life of yours.
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Throughout history, every mystery ever solved has turned out to be NOT magic.
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Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just this beautiful, complex wonderfully unfathomable world?
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Science is not a body of knowledge nor a system of belief.
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Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just THIS?
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Empathy is intuitive, but it is also something you can work on intellectually.
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You don’t have to be unscientific to make beautiful art or to write beautiful things…
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The day they discover yoga mats are carcinogenic will be the happiest day of my life.
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A genius is a mentally ill person with an audience
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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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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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