A famous bon mot asserts that opinions are like arse-holes, in that everyone has one.
TIM MINCHINScience adjusts its views based on what’s observed.
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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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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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The day they discover yoga mats are carcinogenic will be the happiest day of my life.
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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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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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You don’t have to be unscientific to make beautiful art or to write beautiful things…
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Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just this beautiful, complex wonderfully unfathomable world?
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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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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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Define yourself by what you love.
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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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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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There are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don’t hear them whinging.
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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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Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just THIS?
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