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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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With the indiscriminate nature of modern military technology (no such thing as a "smart bomb," it turns out) all wars are wars…
— Howard Zinn
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The more we are committed to believing that something is true, the less likely we are to believe that its opposite is…
— Marshall Goldsmith
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Every adventure requires a first step. Trite but true, even here.
— American McGee
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Everybody has a product to sell—no matter whether you’re an employee, a founder, or an investor. It’s true even if your company…
— Peter Thiel
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The success of everything depends on intuition, the capacity of seeing things in a way which afterwards proves to be true, even…
— Joseph A. Schumpeter
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The brave who focus on all things good and all things beautiful and all things true, even in the small, who give…
— Ann Voskamp
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If you believe something enough, it comes true eventually, and that's so true even with lies. If you tell yourself a lie,…
— Marina and the Diamonds
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Dreams do come true, even for someone who couldn't speak English and never had a music lesson or much of an education.
— Lawrence Welk
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Our perceptions of truth are built around what is practical, not what is true. Even the smartest human brain doesn't have the…
— Scott Adams
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With such global events looming over us like mountains, nay, like entire mountain ranges, it may seem incongruous and inappropriate to recall…
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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The promise, made when I am in love, to be true to the beloved as long as I live, commits me to…
— C.S. Lewis
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What does true even mean when it comes to a face? Only souls are true, and when you spill them to the…
— Laini Taylor
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