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Does it mean, if you don't understand something, and the community of physicists don't understand it, that means God did it? Is that how you want to play this game? Because if it is, here's a list of things in the past that the physicists at the time didn't understand [and now we do understand] [...]. If that's how you want to invoke your evidence for God, then God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that's getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time moves on - so just be ready for that to happen, if that's how you want to come at the problem
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If your belief system is not founded in an objective reality, you should not be making decisions that affect other people.
You don't want to raise a kid in a culture where the kid who asks the most questions is annoying. You want a culture where the kid who asks the most questions gets awards and gets another piece of cake.
We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.
There are as many atoms in each molecule of your DNA as there are stars in the typical galaxy. This is true for dogs, and bears, and every living thing. We are, each of us, a little universe.
The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.
One thing in life is for certain, the more profoundly baffled you have been in your life, the more open your mind becomes to new ideas.
We should not be ashamed of not having answers to all questions yet... I'm perfectly happy staring somebody in the face saying, 'I don't know yet, and we've got top people working on it.' The moment you feel compelled to provide an answer, then you're doing the same thing that the religious community does: providing answers to every possible question.
The most successful people recognize that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation.
In the end, it's the people who are curious who change the world.
The worst thing that ever happened to America was the 19th Amendment.
