There is great wisdom in this… but I would add that opinions differ significantly from arse-holes, in that yours should be constantly and thoroughly examined.
TIM MINCHINThroughout history, every mystery ever solved has turned out to be NOT magic.
More Tim Minchin Quotes
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Be demonstrative and generous in your praise of those you admire.
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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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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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To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.
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You don’t have to be unscientific to make beautiful art or to write beautiful things…
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Science adjusts its views based on what’s observed.
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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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Science is not a body of knowledge nor a system of belief.
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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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Send thank-you cards and give standing ovations. Be pro-stuff, not just anti-stuff.
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A famous bon mot asserts that opinions are like arse-holes, in that everyone has one.
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Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just this beautiful, complex wonderfully unfathomable world?
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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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