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?
TIM MINCHINThroughout history, every mystery ever solved has turned out to be NOT magic.
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Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.
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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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Science is awesome. The arts and sciences need to work together to improve how knowledge is communicated.
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It’s the fine balance of caffeine and alcohol that bookends my days
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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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You know what they call alternative medicine that’s been proved to work? – Medicine.
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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 beautiful, complex wonderfully unfathomable world?
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Only a ginger, can call another ginger Ginger.
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Science is not a body of knowledge nor a system of belief.
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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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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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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.
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Define yourself by what you love.
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It’s an incredibly exciting thing, this one, meaningless life of yours.
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