Science adjusts its views based on what’s observed.
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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To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.
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I will judge you on how you treat the least powerful. So there.
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Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.
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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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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 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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Who’s the world going to revolve around now?
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You know what they call alternative medicine that’s been proved to work? – Medicine.
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Empathy is intuitive, but it is also something you can work on intellectually.
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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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Respect people with less power then you. I don’t care if you’re the most powerful cat in the room,
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Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just THIS?
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It’s an incredibly exciting thing, this one, meaningless life of yours.
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You don’t have to be unscientific to make beautiful art or to write beautiful things…
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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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