Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.
TIM MINCHINRespect people with less power then you. I don’t care if you’re the most powerful cat in the room,
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If anyone can show me one example in the history of the world of a single spiritual person who has been able to show either empirically or logicall.
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A famous bon mot asserts that opinions are like arse-holes, in that everyone has one.
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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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We must think critically, and not just about the ideas of others. Be hard on your beliefs.
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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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Send thank-you cards and give standing ovations. Be pro-stuff, not just anti-stuff.
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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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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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There are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don’t hear them whinging.
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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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Only a ginger, can call another ginger Ginger.
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A genius is a mentally ill person with an audience
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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 an incredibly exciting thing, this one, meaningless life of yours.
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