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“I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brain falls out”
— Arthur Hays Sulzberger
“When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can’t make them change if they don’t want to, just like when they do want to, you can’t stop them.”
– Andy Warhol (via nothingxmuch)
“Consciousness is often celebrated as a mystery beyond science, impenetrable from the outside, however intimately known to each of us from the inside. I think this tradition is not just a mistake, but a serious obstacle to ongoing scientific research that can explain consciousness just as deeply and completely as it can explain other natural phenomena: metabolism, reproduction,…”
– Daniel Dennett (via philphys)
“If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?”
– Carl Sagan (via expose-the-light)
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Very often, when I give my view that there is no supernatural dimension, and certainly not one that is only or especially available to the faithful, and that the natural world is wonderful enough—and even miraculous enough if you insist—I attract pitying looks and anxious questions. How, in that case, I am asked, do I find meaning and purpose in life? How does a mere and gross materialist, with no expectation of a life to come, decide what, if anything, is worth caring about?
Depending on my mood, I sometimes but not always refrain from pointing out what a breathtakingly insulting and patronizing question this is.
” – Christopher Hitchens (via magic8potion)
