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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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What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.
— Pearl Bailey
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Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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What's better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?
— Larry Bird
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Meditative state is the highest state of existence. So long as there is desire, no real happiness can come. It is only…
— Swami Vivekananda
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By meditation we try to slow down the mechanism of projections. If the mechanism is slowed down and even for a single…
— Rajneesh
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...99 percent confident that the world really was getting warmer and that there was a high degree of probability that it was…
— James Hansen
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The world really changed after 9/11, not just in the tragic way, but in every way. So it took me a couple…
— Albert Brooks
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A reminder (Japan's earthquake and tsunami) how flimsy our sophisticated modern world really is
— Unknown Author
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They stood there, King of the Hill, Top of the Heap, Ruler of All They Surveyed, Unimpeachable Monarchs and Presidents, trying to…
— Ray Bradbury
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We must remember that nothing in this world really belongs to us. At best, we are merely borrowers.
— Christopher Isherwood
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Everyone takes pause at 40. It's the age you have to assess everything in your life. It's the fictitious marker that's always…
— Paul Feig
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Once upon a time freedom used to be life-now it's money. I guess the world really do change.
— Lorraine Hansberry
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