You can't get there by bus, only by hard work, risking, and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful: Yourself!
Alan AldaBe brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.
Alan AldaTags: creativity
Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.
Alan AldaTags: science intelligence knowledge opinions open-mind assumptions open-mindedness close-mindedness receptivity science-of-mind isaac-asimov open-minds
War is war and Hell is hell, and if you ask me, War is a lot worse.
Alan AldaTags: war hell alan-alda m-a-s-h
For humans, flying isn't magic, it's physics.
Alan AldaTags: action achievement steps
Klečel jsem před oltařem a otvíral ústa, aby mi kněz mohl na jazyk položit tu velkou kulatou oplatku. Od včerejší večeře to bylo první jídlo. v žaludku mi kručelo, přesto mě chuť toho tenkého kolečka z mouky a vody zvlaště děsila. Koneckonců, tohle nebyl chleba, to byl Ježíš. Ne symbol Ježíše, ale Ježíš sám. Zavřel jsem oči a domlouval sám sobě. Nekousej. Vůbec se toho nedotýkej zuby. A hlavně si to nepřilep na patro. Ach, bože, už se stalo. Dovolil jsi to. Bůh se ti přiepil na patro. Jak ho teď chceš dostat dolů? Musíš to dostat dolů a polknout. Co když to ztvrdne a zůstane tam? Nemůžeš až do večera chodit s bohem v puse. Ach, bože! Tak se rozpusť, rozpuštěj se.
Alan AldaUntil I was twenty I was sure there was a being who could see everything I did and who didn't like most of it. He seemed to care about minute aspects of my life, like on what day of the week I ate a piece of meat. And yet, he let earthquakes and mudslides take out whole communities, apparently ignoring the saints among them who ate their meat on the assigned days. Eventually, I realized that I didn't believe there was such a being. It didn't seem reasonable. And I assumed that I was an atheist.
As I understood the word, it meant that I was someone who didn't believe in a God; I was without a God. I didn't broadcast this in public because I noticed that people who do believe in a god get upset to hear that others don't. (Why this is so is one of the most pressing of human questions, and I wish a few of the bright people in this conversation would try to answer it through research.)
But, slowly I realized that in the popular mind the word atheist was coming to mean something more - a statement that there couldn't be a God. God was, in this formulation, not possible, and this was something that could be proved. But I had been changed by eleven years of interviewing six or seven hundred scientists around the world on the television program Scientific American Frontiers. And that change was reflected in how I would now identify myself.
The most striking thing about the scientists I met was their complete dedication to evidence. It reminded me of the wonderfully plainspoken words of Richard Feynman who felt it was better not to know than to know something that was wrong.
Tags: atheism atheist scientists evidence realization feynman richard-feynman
My mother didn't try to stab my father until I was six.
Alan AldaTags: black-humor ha
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