The day they discover yoga mats are carcinogenic will be the happiest day of my life.
TIM MINCHINThe day they discover yoga mats are carcinogenic will be the happiest day of my life.
TIM MINCHINBe demonstrative and generous in your praise of those you admire.
TIM MINCHINEmpathy is intuitive, but it is also something you can work on intellectually.
TIM MINCHINPlease 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.
TIM MINCHINYou know what they call alternative medicine that’s been proved to work? – Medicine.
TIM MINCHINRespect people with less power then you. I don’t care if you’re the most powerful cat in the room,
TIM MINCHINLove without evidence is stalking.
TIM MINCHINIsn’t this enough? Just this world? Just this beautiful, complex wonderfully unfathomable world?
TIM MINCHINWe must think critically, and not just about the ideas of others. Be hard on your beliefs.
TIM MINCHINOnly a ginger, can call another ginger Ginger.
TIM MINCHINScience 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.
TIM MINCHINScience adjusts its views based on what’s observed.
TIM MINCHINTo dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.
TIM MINCHINThe 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.
TIM MINCHINWho’s the world going to revolve around now?
TIM MINCHINTake them out onto the verandah and beat them with a cricket bat…. Be intellectually rigorous. Identify your biases, your prejudices, your privilege.
TIM MINCHIN