Science doesn't claim to have absolute certainty about the world; it creates models that provide the best explanation based on the available evidence. If additional evidence is found, the model can be changed.
The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things in life like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people in life recognize, that in life they...
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Neil Degrasse Tyson
And sometimes I believe your relentless analysis of June leaves something out, which is your feeling for her beyond knowledge, or in spite of knowledge. I often see how you sob over what you destroy, how you want to stop and just worship; and you...
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Unknown
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
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Isaac Asimov
I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.
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Arthur C. Clarke
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
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Charles Darwin
More Quotes By Armin Navabi
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.” This touches on the heart of the argumentum ad populum fallacy. Physical reality does not require belief to sustain it, and belief will not modify the rules of the universe.
If God creates morality, then morality is nothing more than the whimsy of a divine being blindly followed by humans.
Not knowing the answer to a question is not a valid excuse for making up a fairytale to explain it.
Close analysis of ‘miracles’ have never led to any proof for a supernatural explanation, and, in fact, many have proven to be cheap magic tricks, hallucinations or primitive misunderstandings of natural phenomena.
An all-loving god would surely not damn his children to an eternity of torture simply for being born into a culture that believes in the wrong deity, follows the wrong holy book or attends the wrong type of church services.
