Unlike truth, meaning seems to have little to do with what words or sentences refer to and what is observable or not.
“Atheism is more than just the knowledge that gods do not exist, and that religion is either a mistake or a fraud. Atheism is an attitude, a frame of mind that looks at the world objectively, fearlessly, always trying to understand all things as a part of nature.”
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“The history of science is the back-and-forth movement of trial-and-error advances and retreats, punctuated by moments of brilliance and marred by periods of excess.”
― A Skeptic's Guide to the Mind: What Neuroscience Can and Cannot Tell Us About Ourselves
― A Skeptic's Guide to the Mind: What Neuroscience Can and Cannot Tell Us About Ourselves
“I mean, you could claim that anything's real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody's proved it doesn't exist!”
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“Frederick Douglass taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom, but reading is still the path.”
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