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The whole point of faith, in fact, is to believe regardless of the evidence, which is the very antithesis of science.
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People believe in God because we are pattern-seeking, storytelling, mythmaking, religious, moral animals.
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Play hard, work hard, love hard. . . .The bottom line for me is to live life to the fullest in the…
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As Karl Marx once noted: 'Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He forgot…
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Science is a set of methods designed to describe and interpret observed or inferred phenomenon, past or present, and aimed at building…
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Remember always that we are pattern-seeking primates who are especially adept at finding patterns with emotional meaning.
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The concept of God is generated by a brain designed by evolution to find design in nature (a very recursive idea).
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Believing that the rustle in the grass is a dangerous predator when it is only the wind does not cost much, but…
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Scientists like Bjorn Lomborg in The Skeptical Environmentalist have, in my opinion, properly nailed environmental extremists for these exaggerated scenarios.
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Because of the complexity of the problem, environmental skepticism was once tenable. No longer. It is time to flip from skepticism to…
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Rationality tied to moral decency is the most powerful joint instrument for good that our planet has ever known.
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The actual atoms and molecules that make up my brain and body today are not the same ones that I was born…
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People cannot be expected to learn one expertise and just apply it routinely in a job. Your expertise is in steadily renewing…
— George Gilder
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To solve a problem is to create new problems, new knowledge immediately reveals new areas of ignorance, and the need for new…
— George Porter
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If you want to push design into new areas, you have to work closely across the boundaries of people's trades and professions.…
— Jeanne Gang
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It is sad that while science moves ahead in exciting new areas of research, fine-tuning our knowledge of how life originated and…
— Michael Shermer
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Hinduism would not be eternal were it not constantly growing and spreading, and taking in new areas of experience. Precisely because it…
— Sister Nivedita
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Early on in your career, find someone better than yourself to run the business on a day-to-day basis. Remove yourself, maybe even…
— Richard Branson
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Actually, the suburbs are far more sinister places than most city dwellers imagine. Their very blandness forces the imagination into new areas.…
— J. G. Ballard
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If the Christian is a restorationist, a legalist, if he wants everything clear and safe, then he will find nothing. Tradition and…
— Pope Francis
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