I spend so much time hating (my body) but it never says a bad word about me
TIM MINCHINI spend so much time hating (my body) but it never says a bad word about me
TIM MINCHINScience 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.
TIM MINCHINYou know what they call alternative medicine that’s been proved to work? – Medicine.
TIM MINCHINIsn’t this enough? Just this world? Just THIS?
TIM MINCHINFaith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.
TIM MINCHINScience is awesome. The arts and sciences need to work together to improve how knowledge is communicated.
TIM MINCHINThere are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don’t hear them whinging.
TIM MINCHINIsn’t this enough? Just this world? Just this beautiful, complex wonderfully unfathomable world?
TIM MINCHINWho’s the world going to revolve around now?
TIM MINCHINPlease 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.
TIM MINCHINTo dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.
TIM MINCHINEmpathy is intuitive, but it is also something you can work on intellectually.
TIM MINCHINSend thank-you cards and give standing ovations. Be pro-stuff, not just anti-stuff.
TIM MINCHINScience adjusts its views based on what’s observed.
TIM MINCHINThe existence of a higher power with any consciousness or interest in the human race or ability to punish or reward humans for their moral choices or that there is any reason other than fear to believe in any version of an afterlife, I will give you my piano, one of my legs and my wife.
TIM MINCHINHow does it so fail to hold our attention that we have to diminish it with the invention of cheap, man-made myths and monsters?
TIM MINCHIN