It is just a term which describes humankind’s incremental acquisition of understanding through observation. Science is awesome.
TIM MINCHINScience is awesome. The arts and sciences need to work together to improve how knowledge is communicated.
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There is great wisdom in this… but I would add that opinions differ significantly from arse-holes, in that yours should be constantly and thoroughly examined.
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Only a ginger, can call another ginger Ginger.
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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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There are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don’t hear them whinging.
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It’s the fine balance of caffeine and alcohol that bookends my days
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Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.
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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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A famous bon mot asserts that opinions are like arse-holes, in that everyone has one.
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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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I will judge you on how you treat the least powerful. So there.
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Throughout history, every mystery ever solved has turned out to be NOT magic.
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Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just this beautiful, complex wonderfully unfathomable world?
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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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We must think critically, and not just about the ideas of others. Be hard on your beliefs.
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