Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just THIS?
TIM MINCHINIf 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.
More Tim Minchin Quotes
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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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Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.
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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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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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The day they discover yoga mats are carcinogenic will be the happiest day of my life.
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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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A famous bon mot asserts that opinions are like arse-holes, in that everyone has one.
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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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Who’s the world going to revolve around now?
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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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Science adjusts its views based on what’s observed.
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It’s the fine balance of caffeine and alcohol that bookends my days
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Send thank-you cards and give standing ovations. Be pro-stuff, not just anti-stuff.
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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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Love without evidence is stalking.
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Science is not a body of knowledge nor a system of belief.
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A genius is a mentally ill person with an audience
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If anyone can show me … that there is any reason – other than fear – to believe in any version of an afterlife, I’ll give you my piano, one of my legs, and my wife.
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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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You don’t have to be unscientific to make beautiful art or to write beautiful things…
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It’s an incredibly exciting thing, this one, meaningless life of yours.
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Only a ginger, can call another ginger Ginger.
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Be demonstrative and generous in your praise of those you admire.
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There are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don’t hear them whinging.
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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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