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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 guess I realize that I don't want to die. I don't want to live either, but-there really isn't anything in-between. Depression…
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How then can we deal with our tendency toward worldliness? It is not by determining that we will not be worldly, but…
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From the clayey soil of northern Wyoming is mined bentonite, which is used as filler in candy, gum, and lipstick. We Americans…
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An inborn tendency toward science turning it into a lifelong commitment.
— Bruno Rossi
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I'm not really a happy person. It's a question of temperament. I have a tendency toward melancholy. You can feel quite happily…
— Michael Haneke
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If the awareness of our limitations begins to limit or to dim our value consciousness as well—as happens, for instance, in old…
— Max Scheler
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In this country protection has always, to some extent, existed; but at some times it has been efficient, and at others not;…
— Henry Charles Carey
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There is a loveliness to life that does not fade. Even in the terrors of the night, there is a tendency toward…
— Robert Goolrick
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Indeed, this is an important characteristic of the globalization debate: the tendency toward glorifying all things indigenous even when they deserve to…
— Franklin Foer
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There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.
— Mao Zedong
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I have a tendency toward being a micromanager.
— Christine Quinn
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