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.
TIM MINCHINOnce 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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Once you reject evidence as a source of knowledge, you don’t gotta believe nothin’ you don’t like.
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A famous bon mot asserts that opinions are like arse-holes, in that everyone has one.
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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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Empathy is intuitive, but it is also something you can work on intellectually.
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It’s an incredibly exciting thing, this one, meaningless life of yours.
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Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.
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Only a ginger, can call another ginger Ginger.
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You know what they call alternative medicine that’s been proved to work? – Medicine.
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A genius is a mentally ill person with an audience
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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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To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.
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Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just this beautiful, complex wonderfully unfathomable world?
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You don’t have to be unscientific to make beautiful art or to write beautiful things…
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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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