Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.
TIM MINCHINYou know what they call alternative medicine that’s been proved to work? – Medicine.
More Tim Minchin Quotes
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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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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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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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Throughout history, every mystery ever solved has turned out to be NOT magic.
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It’s an incredibly exciting thing, this one, meaningless life of yours.
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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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To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.
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Science adjusts its views based on what’s observed.
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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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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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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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Science is not a body of knowledge nor a system of belief.
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Who’s the world going to revolve around now?
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There are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don’t hear them whinging.
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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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