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.
TIM MINCHINScience is not a body of knowledge nor a system of belief.
More Tim Minchin Quotes
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Who’s the world going to revolve around now?
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Send thank-you cards and give standing ovations. Be pro-stuff, not just anti-stuff.
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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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I will judge you on how you treat the least powerful. So there.
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A famous bon mot asserts that opinions are like arse-holes, in that everyone has one.
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How does it so fail to hold our attention that we have to diminish it with the invention of cheap, man-made myths and monsters?
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Be demonstrative and generous in your praise of those you admire.
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I spend so much time hating (my body) but it never says a bad word about me
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We must think critically, and not just about the ideas of others. Be hard on your beliefs.
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The day they discover yoga mats are carcinogenic will be the happiest day of my life.
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There are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don’t hear them whinging.
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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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We have tendency to define ourselves in opposition to stuff. But try to also express your passion for things you love.
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Throughout history, every mystery ever solved has turned out to be NOT magic.
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A genius is a mentally ill person with an audience
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