Take them out onto the verandah and beat them with a cricket bat…. Be intellectually rigorous. Identify your biases, your prejudices, your privilege.
TIM MINCHINThroughout history, every mystery ever solved has turned out to be NOT magic.
More Tim Minchin Quotes
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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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Science is not a body of knowledge or a belief system, it is just a term that describes humankind’s incremental acquisition of understanding through observation.
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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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It’s the fine balance of caffeine and alcohol that bookends my days
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Empathy is intuitive, but it is also something you can work on intellectually.
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I will judge you on how you treat the least powerful. So there.
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It’s an incredibly exciting thing, this one, meaningless life of yours.
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Send thank-you cards and give standing ovations. Be pro-stuff, not just anti-stuff.
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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 is not a body of knowledge nor a system of belief.
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Science adjusts its views based on what’s observed.
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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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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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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.
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