Science is not a body of knowledge nor a system of belief.
TIM MINCHINTo dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.
More Tim Minchin Quotes
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Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.
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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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Love without evidence is stalking.
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You don’t have to be unscientific to make beautiful art or to write beautiful things…
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Only a ginger, can call another ginger Ginger.
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Throughout history, every mystery ever solved has turned out to be NOT magic.
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A famous bon mot asserts that opinions are like arse-holes, in that everyone has one.
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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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Empathy is intuitive, but it is also something you can work on intellectually.
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Science adjusts its views based on what’s observed.
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I will judge you on how you treat the least powerful. So there.
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You know what they call alternative medicine that’s been proved to work? – Medicine.
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Be demonstrative and generous in your praise of those you admire.
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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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I spend so much time hating (my body) but it never says a bad word about me
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