Once you reject evidence as a source of knowledge, you don’t gotta believe nothin’ you don’t like.
TIM MINCHINThroughout history, every mystery ever solved has turned out to be NOT magic.
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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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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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Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.
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You know what they call alternative medicine that’s been proved to work? – Medicine.
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We must think critically, and not just about the ideas of others. Be hard on your beliefs.
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Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just this beautiful, complex wonderfully unfathomable world?
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Send thank-you cards and give standing ovations. Be pro-stuff, not just anti-stuff.
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Science 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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Empathy is intuitive, but it is also something you can work on intellectually.
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It’s the fine balance of caffeine and alcohol that bookends my days
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There are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don’t hear them whinging.
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It’s an incredibly exciting thing, this one, meaningless life of yours.
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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 genius is a mentally ill person with an audience
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