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.
TIM MINCHINIt’s an incredibly exciting thing, this one, meaningless life of yours.
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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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To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.
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Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just this beautiful, complex wonderfully unfathomable world?
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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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Science is awesome. The arts and sciences need to work together to improve how knowledge is communicated.
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Send thank-you cards and give standing ovations. Be pro-stuff, not just anti-stuff.
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Respect people with less power then you. I don’t care if you’re the most powerful cat in the room,
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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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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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It’s an incredibly exciting thing, this one, meaningless life of yours.
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Science adjusts its views based on what’s observed.
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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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I spend so much time hating (my body) but it never says a bad word about me
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Only a ginger, can call another ginger Ginger.
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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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