We must think critically, and not just about the ideas of others. Be hard on your beliefs.
TIM MINCHINScience 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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The day they discover yoga mats are carcinogenic will be the happiest day of my life.
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It’s the fine balance of caffeine and alcohol that bookends my days
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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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Who’s the world going to revolve around now?
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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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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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Send thank-you cards and give standing ovations. Be pro-stuff, not just anti-stuff.
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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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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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It is just a term which describes humankind’s incremental acquisition of understanding through observation. Science is awesome.
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Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just THIS?
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Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.
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A famous bon mot asserts that opinions are like arse-holes, in that everyone has one.
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