We have tendency to define ourselves in opposition to stuff. But try to also express your passion for things you love.
TIM MINCHINThere are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don’t hear them whinging.
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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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A genius is a mentally ill person with an audience
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Define yourself by what you love.
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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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Send thank-you cards and give standing ovations. Be pro-stuff, not just anti-stuff.
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You don’t have to be unscientific to make beautiful art or to write beautiful things…
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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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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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Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just THIS?
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A famous bon mot asserts that opinions are like arse-holes, in that everyone has one.
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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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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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Empathy is intuitive, but it is also something you can work on intellectually.
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