Take them out onto the verandah and beat them with a cricket bat…. Be intellectually rigorous. Identify your biases, your prejudices, your privilege.
TIM MINCHINYou know what they call alternative medicine that’s been proved to work? – Medicine.
More Tim Minchin Quotes
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Science adjusts its views based on what’s observed.
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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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We must think critically, and not just about the ideas of others. Be hard on your beliefs.
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Throughout history, every mystery ever solved has turned out to be NOT magic.
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Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just THIS?
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Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just this beautiful, complex wonderfully unfathomable world?
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A famous bon mot asserts that opinions are like arse-holes, in that everyone has one.
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Who’s the world going to revolve around now?
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Science is awesome. The arts and sciences need to work together to improve how knowledge is communicated.
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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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Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.
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The day they discover yoga mats are carcinogenic will be the happiest day of my life.
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You don’t have to be unscientific to make beautiful art or to write beautiful things…
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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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If anyone can show me one example in the history of the world of a single spiritual person who has been able to show either empirically or logicall.
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