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.
TIM MINCHINI will judge you on how you treat the least powerful. So there.
More Tim Minchin Quotes
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Once you reject evidence as a source of knowledge, you don’t gotta believe nothin’ you don’t like.
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Science adjusts its views based on what’s observed.
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A genius is a mentally ill person with an audience
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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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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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There is great wisdom in this… but I would add that opinions differ significantly from arse-holes, in that yours should be constantly and thoroughly examined.
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You know what they call alternative medicine that’s been proved to work? – Medicine.
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Only a ginger, can call another ginger Ginger.
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Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just this beautiful, complex wonderfully unfathomable world?
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There are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don’t hear them whinging.
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Define yourself by what you love.
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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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Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.
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The 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.
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Respect people with less power then you. I don’t care if you’re the most powerful cat in the room,
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