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.
TIM MINCHINThere are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don’t hear them whinging.
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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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It’s the fine balance of caffeine and alcohol that bookends my days
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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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Love without evidence is stalking.
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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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Science adjusts its views based on what’s observed.
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Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.
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Empathy is intuitive, but it is also something you can work on intellectually.
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Science is not a body of knowledge nor a system of belief.
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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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A famous bon mot asserts that opinions are like arse-holes, in that everyone has one.
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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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A genius is a mentally ill person with an audience
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It’s an incredibly exciting thing, this one, meaningless life of yours.
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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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