Science adjusts its views based on what’s observed.
TIM MINCHINThroughout history, every mystery ever solved has turned out to be NOT magic.
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Define yourself by what you love.
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A famous bon mot asserts that opinions are like arse-holes, in that everyone has one.
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It’s the fine balance of caffeine and alcohol that bookends my days
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Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just THIS?
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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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Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.
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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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Send thank-you cards and give standing ovations. Be pro-stuff, not just anti-stuff.
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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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It’s an incredibly exciting thing, this one, meaningless life of yours.
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Throughout history, every mystery ever solved has turned out to be NOT magic.
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Once you reject evidence as a source of knowledge, you don’t gotta believe nothin’ you don’t like.
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There are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don’t hear them whinging.
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Empathy is intuitive, but it is also something you can work on intellectually.
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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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