A genius is a mentally ill person with an audience
TIM MINCHINEmpathy is intuitive, but it is also something you can work on intellectually.
More Tim Minchin Quotes
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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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You know what they call alternative medicine that’s been proved to work? – Medicine.
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Throughout history, every mystery ever solved has turned out to be NOT magic.
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Love without evidence is stalking.
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A famous bon mot asserts that opinions are like arse-holes, in that everyone has one.
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There are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don’t hear them whinging.
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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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Send thank-you cards and give standing ovations. Be pro-stuff, not just anti-stuff.
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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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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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It is just a term which describes humankind’s incremental acquisition of understanding through observation. Science is awesome.
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Empathy is intuitive, but it is also something you can work on intellectually.
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It’s the fine balance of caffeine and alcohol that bookends my days
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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 must think critically, and not just about the ideas of others. Be hard on your beliefs.
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