http://www.visualeffectssociety.com/visual-effects-industry-bill-of-rights

The Situation Today The global visual effects industry is in transition. Because visual effects now play a central role in today’s feature films, television programming, animation, video games, commercials and virtually all forms of entertainment, they have become critically important to the entertainment industry.

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Science is the poetry of reality.

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.

Natural selection will not remove ignorance from future generations.

One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are really not answers at all.

Our animal origins are constantly lurking behind, even if they are filtered through complicated social evolution.

Blindness to suffering is an inherent consequence of natural selection. Nature is neither kind nor cruel but indifferent.

It is a remarkable coincidence that almost everyone has the same religion as their parents and it always just so happens they’re the right religion

We are all atheist about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just one god further.

Religion is capable to drive people to such a  dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a mental illness.

The less you think the more you believe.

Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-43396008