Once you reject evidence as a source of knowledge, you don’t gotta believe nothin’ you don’t like.
TIM MINCHINIt is just a term which describes humankind’s incremental acquisition of understanding through observation. Science is awesome.
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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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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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Only a ginger, can call another ginger Ginger.
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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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Throughout history, every mystery ever solved has turned out to be NOT magic.
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Science is not a body of knowledge nor a system of belief.
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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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I spend so much time hating (my body) but it never says a bad word about me
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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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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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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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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 famous bon mot asserts that opinions are like arse-holes, in that everyone has one.
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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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