Empathy is intuitive, but it is also something you can work on intellectually.
TIM MINCHINA genius is a mentally ill person with an audience
More Tim Minchin Quotes
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Send thank-you cards and give standing ovations. Be pro-stuff, not just anti-stuff.
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Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.
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It is just a term which describes humankind’s incremental acquisition of understanding through observation. Science is awesome.
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To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.
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It’s the fine balance of caffeine and alcohol that bookends my days
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Science is not a body of knowledge or a belief system, it is just a term that describes humankind’s incremental acquisition of understanding through observation.
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Define yourself by what you love.
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Science adjusts its views based on what’s observed.
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Throughout history, every mystery ever solved has turned out to be NOT magic.
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Please don’t make the mistake of thinking that the arts and sciences are at odds with one another. That is a recent, stupid and damaging idea.
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If anyone can show me … that there is any reason – other than fear – to believe in any version of an afterlife, I’ll give you my piano, one of my legs, and my wife.
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If I had a religion, its deity would be Audysseus, the sound God, and He would be a vengeful god, dishing out eternal damnation to people with cheap stage monitors.
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A famous bon mot asserts that opinions are like arse-holes, in that everyone has one.
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Only a ginger, can call another ginger Ginger.
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Take them out onto the verandah and beat them with a cricket bat…. Be intellectually rigorous. Identify your biases, your prejudices, your privilege.
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