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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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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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Darwin matters because evolution matters. Evolution matters because science matters. Science matters because it is the preeminent story of our age, an…
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Science is not the affirmation of a set of beliefs but a process of inquiry aimed at building a testable body of…
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Either the soul survives death or it does not, and there is no scientific evidence that it does.
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We have long been seeking a different kind of evolutionary process and have now found one; namely, the change within the pattern…
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Today the god hypothesis has ceased to be scientifically tenable ... and its abandonment often brings a deep sense of relief.
— Julian Huxley
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Any danger spot is tenable if men, brave men, will make it so.
— John F. Kennedy
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Although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin, Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.
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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…
— Michael Shermer
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In considering any new subject, there is frequently a tendency, first, to overrate what we find to be already interesting or remarkable;…
— Ada Lovelace
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On both difficult and easy terrain, you must know the 'tenable' and 'fatal' ground. Occupy tenable ground and attack on fatal ground.
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The quantum theory of parallel universes is not the problem, it is the solution. It is not some troublesome, optional interpretation emerging…
— David Deutsch
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