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.
TIM MINCHINIf 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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It’s an incredibly exciting thing, this one, meaningless life of yours.
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Define yourself by what you love.
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Be demonstrative and generous in your praise of those you admire.
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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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Once you reject evidence as a source of knowledge, you don’t gotta believe nothin’ you don’t like.
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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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I will judge you on how you treat the least powerful. So there.
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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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Send thank-you cards and give standing ovations. Be pro-stuff, not just anti-stuff.
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Science is not a body of knowledge nor a system of belief.
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Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just this beautiful, complex wonderfully unfathomable world?
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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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Science adjusts its views based on what’s observed.
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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?
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