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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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I'm in a constant process of thinking about things.
— Richard Brautigan
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Technology is very seductive, and it is certainly changing the way things are designed and made and taught. The problem is when…
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"I think you're begging the question," said Haydock, "and I can see looming ahead one of those terrible exercises in probability where…
— Agatha Christie
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On the one hand, philosophy is to keep us thinking about things that we may come to know, and on the other…
— Bertrand Russell
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Learning to write programs stretches your mind, and helps you think better, creates a way of thinking about things that I think…
— Bill Gates
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My point of view is, I'm just a person, and there are times when I look at other people and think, 'My…
— Ian MacKaye
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When you are meditating, thinking about things in this world is not going to help you. Instead, forget about everything for a…
— Frederick Lenz
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I'm afraid I tend to be thinking about things and not paying sufficient attention to one's posture, deportment and general cast of…
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