Science is awesome. The arts and sciences need to work together to improve how knowledge is communicated.
TIM MINCHINWe must think critically, and not just about the ideas of others. Be hard on your beliefs.
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Science adjusts its views based on what’s observed.
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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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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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If I had a religion, its deity would be Audysseus, the sound God, and He would be a vengeful god, dishing out eternal damnation to people with cheap stage monitors.
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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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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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Send thank-you cards and give standing ovations. Be pro-stuff, not just anti-stuff.
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The existence of a higher power with any consciousness or interest in the human race or ability to punish or reward humans for their moral choices or that there is any reason other than fear to believe in any version of an afterlife, I will give you my piano, one of my legs and my wife.
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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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Once you reject evidence as a source of knowledge, you don’t gotta believe nothin’ you don’t like.
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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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Love without evidence is stalking.
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Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just this beautiful, complex wonderfully unfathomable world?
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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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