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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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I don't want to lie. I dislike dishonesty. And I work in Hollywood, a town and a business that relies on a…
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No one has proof that I know of, that a higher power exists, yet a major portion of the world believes in…
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Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move.
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The fact, however, to which I want to call attention is that the master of Judo never relies upon his own strength.…
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Luck relies on chance, labor on character.
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Contrary to the popular notion that only creationism relies on the supernatural, evolutionism must as well, since the probabilities of random formation…
— Unknown Author
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"You know you are seeing such a photograph if you say to yourself, "I could have taken that picture. I've seen such…
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All fiction relies on the real world in the sense that we all take in the world through our five senses and…
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As the innocent infant relies upon the mother for sustenance, so the innocent wanderer, following his native compassion and bliss, relies upon…
— Miyamoto Musashi
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Still,[...] in all forms of comics the sequential artist relies upon the tacit cooperation of the reader. This cooperation is based upon…
— Will Eisner
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A home cook who relies too much on a recipe is sort of like a pilot who reads the plane's instruction manual…
— Alton Brown
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Our future growth relies on competitiveness and innovation, skills and productivity... and these in turn rely on the education of our people.
— Julia Gillard
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