Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.
TIM MINCHINDefine yourself by what you love.
More Tim Minchin Quotes
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You know what they call alternative medicine that’s been proved to work? – Medicine.
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Science adjusts its views based on what’s observed.
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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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It’s the fine balance of caffeine and alcohol that bookends my days
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Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just THIS?
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Love without evidence is stalking.
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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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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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Empathy is intuitive, but it is also something you can work on intellectually.
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A famous bon mot asserts that opinions are like arse-holes, in that everyone has one.
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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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It’s an incredibly exciting thing, this one, meaningless life of yours.
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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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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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